Spring Transactions

General Transaction Managers

• Recognize various kinds of the transaction managers.
• Demonstrate how to wire them with their dependencies in the configuration file.
• Know that JtaTransactionManager allows to use distributed transactions.

Programmatic transactions

• Demonstrate how to use TransactionTemplate together with the transaction callback.
• Show how to wire transaction manager to TransactionTemplate.
• Provide examples of how to use transaction manager directly in the code.
• Recognize various callback interfaces.
• Explain the purpose and direct usage of the TransactionStatus class.

Declarative transactions

• Understand that Spring uses AOP in order to provide declarative transactions.
• Provide examples of the proper wiring configuration of the TransactionProxyFactoryBean.
• Use autoproxying features of the Spring AOP API in order to remove boilerplate configuration code.
• Demonstrate how to make all or only some of the methods of the bean transaction-aware.
• Identify how to configure Spring declarative transactions using annotations and xsd configuration.

Configuring transactions

• Recognize and describe four main attributes of each Spring transaction:
  • Propagation
  • Isolation
  • Read-only setting
  • Timeout
• Show how to create transaction with the default attributes' values.
• Configure each attribute of the declarative transactions using various techniques (by direct configuration of the TransactionProxyFactoryBean in the wiring file, via implementations of TransactionAttributeSource, annotations and so forth).
• Configure transactions directly using programmatic transactions.
• Know that Spring rollbacks unchecked exceptions by default - describe how to change that behavior.