Hibernate JPA and Spring javax.persistence.TransactionRequiredException: no transaction is in progress

Question

When I call:

entityManager.flush()

I get the exception mentioned in the title.

I am using Hibernate JPA.

Answer 1

Same was happening to me using spring 3.0.0 / 3.0.3. Data was persisted in MySQL from JUnit but not from the tomcat server. After so much work I gave up on RESOURCE_LOCAL for JTA.

This worked for me http://erich.soomsam.net/2007/04/24/spring-jpa-and-jta-with-hibernate-and-jotm/ It uses JTA and depends on JOTM.

Answer 2

I had the same problem... spent some hours until I found the reason finally. It was just one line of code that caused the exception in my case...

In my mvc-core-config.xml the following line was the reason:

<context:component-scan base-package="com.my.package.application" />

After I changed it as follows, everything worked again:

<context:component-scan base-package="com.my.package.application.controller" />

So I guess the scanning of all my application packages instead of just my @Controller classes lead to the problem like @harshal-waghmare mentioned in his post to another answer.

Answer 3

My Problem was to do with the way that I setup the <tx:annotation-driven/> Element in my context definition -

Originally I had load time weaving enabled (not knownley) that read <tx:annotation-driven mode="aspectj" transaction-manager="transactionManager"/> and by simply removing the 2nd attribute - everything worked (took 2 hours of head banging though). I believe the 2nd element relates to the @Configurable sterotype but can let other (smarter) people explain the difference & why one would work & the other does does not.. Hope this helps...

working definition= <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>

Answer 4

Spring 4.3.1 / Hibernate 4.2.21

My configuration was 100% Java code with no hibernate or spring xml documents (eg context.xml, persistence.xml etc). The issue was the EntityManagerFactory I was passing to the TransactionManager, see the below configuration in the transactionManager method.

@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
public class HibernateConfiguration2 {

@Bean
public DataSource dataSource() {
    return ...; // Build a basic datasource
}

@Bean
@Autowired
public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory(DataSource dataSource) {
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    entityManagerFactory.setDataSource(dataSource);
    entityManagerFactory.setPackagesToScan("nz.co.mark");
    entityManagerFactory.setPersistenceProviderClass(org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.class);

    return entityManagerFactory;
}

@Bean
@Autowired
public EntityManager entityManager(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean localContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean) {
    EntityManager em = localContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.getNativeEntityManagerFactory().createEntityManager();
    em.setFlushMode(FlushModeType.AUTO);
    return em;
}

@Bean
@Autowired
public JpaTransactionManager transactionManager(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean emf) throws Exception {
    JpaTransactionManager transactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
    transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(emf.getObject());
    // The below line would generate javax.persistence.TransactionRequiredException: no transaction is in progress
    // transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(emf.getNativeEntityManagerFactory());
    return transactionManager;
}

Answer 5

For JBoss 4.0 and Hibernate, I fixed this problem by adding some transaction manager properties to my EntityManagerFactoryBean definition:

<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="xaDs" />
    <property name="jpaProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory
            </prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup
            </prop>
        </props>
    </property>

I found the soluton on this message board thread.

Answer 6

Ensure that you have an active transaction when this statement executes. If you are using JPA use EntityManager.getTransaction().begin(). This is assuming that you are using JPA outside a JTA transaction scope.