Question

What type of transaction management strategy we should use in Spring?
Declarative or Programmatic?
Which one is better and under what situation one should use it?
Can you give any proper examples or tutorial about it.

Also want to know that what is the latest things we should use while write database codes in spring?
What is the alternative for HibernateTemplate?

Answer 1

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/transaction.html#tx-decl-vs-prog

and

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/transaction.html

in general.

examples:

http://www.springbyexample.org/examples/hibernate-transaction-annotation-config.html

New features: I suggest using DI with SessionFactory. Also take a look at 3.1 new feature: Hibernate 4 support. see http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/new-in-3.1.html#d0e1385