Spring @Transactional method - participating transaction

Question

in one dao I have 2 @Transactional methods.

if i do not provide any explicit properties,

then what will happen, if

I run one method in the body of an

Answer 1

The default value of the propagation attribute of @Transactional is REQUIRED, which means:

Support a current transaction, create a new one if none exists.

So yes - both methods will run in the same transaction.

But one important advice: don't make your DAO transactional. The services should be transactional, not the DAO.