@Transactional / JPA / JTA / JBoss 5.1.0

Hi, I don't get the transaction work with my setup:

My repository bean:

Code:

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@Transactional
public class UserRepositoryBean implements UserRepository {
       
@PersistenceContext(unitName = "blabla")private EntityManager entityManager;

public IBewirtschafterUser updateBewirtschafterUser(Context ctx, IBewirtschafterUser bewUser) {
    .....
}

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My spring config:

Code:

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<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
                class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
                <property name="persistenceUnitName" value="blabla" />
                <property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
                        <bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
                                <!-- <property name="showSql" value="true" /> -->
                                <property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect" />
                        </bean>
                </property>
        </bean>

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

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

        <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
                <property name="jndiName" value="java:blablaDS" />
        </bean>

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My persistence.xml:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
<persistence version="2.0"
        xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
 -->
<persistence version="2.0"
        xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
        <persistence-unit name="blabla" transaction-type="JTA">
                <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
                <jta-data-source>java:/blablaDS</jta-data-source>
                <class>blabla.persistence.entity.blabla</class>
                <properties>
                        <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup"/>
                        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect" />
                        <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="read-write" />
            <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
            <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true" />
            <property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments" value="true" />
                </properties>
        </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

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It looks like spring don't attaches a transaction to the method call: updateBewirtschafterUser.
When I use

Code:

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@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)

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instead of

Code:

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@Transactional

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then it works.

Can anybody explain whats going on?

Ok I tried the following things:

1. Transactional on method: It changed nothing, when I moved the Transactional onto the method, same behaviour, no transaction
2. propagation=REQUIRED on Transactional, when I added the propagation=REQUIRED, same behaviour, no transaction
3. flush after merge: Of course this worked, the record was inserted, but this was just a check if something completly is wrong

Ok, when I change the Transactional to TransactionAttribute then it works.

Code:

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@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
public class UserRepositoryBean implements UserRepository

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I really don't understand whats going on, its pure trial and error :(

Forgot to mention which spring version I use:
Spring: 3.1.2