Spring @Transaction method call by the method within the same class, does not work?

Question

I am new to Spring Transaction. Something that I found really odd, probably I did understand this properly.

I wanted to have a transactional around method level and

Answer 1

This is my solution for self invocation:

public class SBMWSBL {
    private SBMWSBL self;

    @Autowired
    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    @PostConstruct
    public void postContruct(){
        self = applicationContext.getBean(SBMWSBL.class);
    }

    // ...
}