Spring transaction internals

Question

The situation is as follows:

1. Method1 has four database update methods in it. The Method1 is annotated using the Spring transaction management semantics.

Answer 1

Controller
@Transactional
public void sequence() {
  method1();
  method2();
}

@Transactional
void method1() {
}

@Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
void method2() {
}

The default propagation is REQUIRED (Support a current transaction, create a new one if none exists.) Therefore m1 will use the Transaction started in the Controller. m2 is annotated as REQUIRES_NEW ( Create a new transaction, suspend the current transaction if one exists.) The order of the transaction is the order you call the transactional methods.

Controller
begin tx1
   |--------------------> m1 (uses tx1)
   |
   | begin tx2
   |--------------------> m2 (uses tx2)
   | commit tx2
commit tx1