Declarative or Programmatic Transaction in Spring

Question

What type of transaction management strategy we should use in Spring? Declarative or Programmatic? Which one is better and under what situation one should use it? Can you give a

Answer 1

There are two types of Transaction management that Spring supports:

1. Programmatic Transaction Management: Transaction is managed with the help of programming and provides extreme flexibility, but it is difficult to maintain.

2. Declarative Transaction Management: Transaction management is separated from business code and only annotations or XML based configurations are used to manage the transactions.