Setting Up Annotation Driven Transactions in Spring in @Configuration Class

Question

So in the latest version of Spring we are able to use the @Configuration annotation to setup our configurations for Spring. Now in JavaConfig it is possible to

Answer 1

It seems like it isn't possible according to this forum post:

there may be a more first-class mechanism for enabling annotation-driven TX in @Configuration classes in Spring 3.1, but in the meantime, the recommended approach is to use @ImportResource to include a snippet of XML that declares

Wait: but you seem to have an XML context anyway. Why not add to it and use @Transactional?