Not allowed to create transaction on shared EntityManager - use Spring transactions or EJB CMT

Question

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When I execute the following I am getting following exception, how can I resolve this?

Not allowed to create transaction on shared EntityManager - use Spring 
transactions or EJB CMT

DAOImpl code

public void create(Project project) {
        entityManager.persist(project);
        entityManager.getTransaction().commit();
        project = entityManager.find(Project.class, project.getProjectId());
        entityManager.refresh(project);
        System.out.println("Id    -- " + project.getProjectId());
            System.out.println("no -- " + project.getProjectNo());
    }

applicationContext.xml

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

    <bean id="DataSource"
        class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="username" value="scott" />
        <property name="password" value="tiger" />
        <property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" />
        <property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@myserver:1521:ORCL" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="entityManagerFactory"
        class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="DataSource" />
        <property name="packagesToScan" value="test.entity" />
        <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
            <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
                <property name="showSql" value="true" />
                <property name="generateDdl" value="false" />
                <property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect" />
            </bean>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <context:component-scan base-package="test.net" />

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

     <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
        <property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
    </bean>         

     <context:annotation-config/>

</beans>

Answer 1

I guess the problem here is that although you have defined the bean for the transaction manager, you haven't annotated the create() method with @Transactional which enables spring transactions.

Also remove the entityManager.getTransaction().commit(); statement as now all the transaction management will be handled by spring, if you leave the statement as it is then you will get the same error again.

Answer 2

Injecting EntityManagerFactory instead of EntityManager and javax.transaction.Transactional annotation on method solved my issue as shown below.

//Autowire EntityManagerFactory
@PersistenceUnit(unitName = "readwrite.config")
private EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;


//Use below code on create/update
EntityManager entityManager = entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager();

entityManager.getTransaction().begin();
if (!ObjectUtils.isEmpty(entity) && !entityManager.contains(entity)) {
   entityManager.persist(entity);
   entityManager.flush();
}
entityManager.getTransaction().commit();