@Transactional methods in @Controller class are not considred as transactional

Question

I noticed that the following is not working in a class marked as a @Controller:

@Autowired
SessionFactory sessionFactory;

@ResponseBody
@Transa         


        

Answer 1

Probably you have two application contexts here: main Spring context loaded by ContextLoaderListener and a child context loaded by DispatcherServlet. You need to put in the configuration loaded by the child context too. If you show us your web.xml file maybe I can help you more.

Anyway, as @NimChimpsky says, is usually not a good practice to manage transactions in your controller layer.