Transaction not working for non-action methods [JSF]

Hi,

I have a JSF application integrated with Spring, with the help of ContextLoaderListener and RequestContextListener (configured inside web.xml). I have configured transactions on some backing-bean methods using Spring AOP.

My issue is that, transaction works for any action method, not for any other methods.

Here are configurations

Code:

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        <!-- Transaction Manager-->
        <bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
                <property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernateFactory"/>
        </bean>       
   
      <!-- AOP Config -->
        <aop:config proxy-target-class="true">
                <aop:pointcut id="pcutAuthentication" expression="execution(* com.portsdirect.sms.web.backingbeans.AuthenticationBackingBean.*(..))"/>
        </aop:config>

        <!-- Advice -->
        <tx:advice id="advAuthentication" transaction-manager="txManager">
                <tx:attributes>
                        <tx:method name="sendNewPassword" propagation="REQUIRED" rollback-for="com.portsdirect.sms.bi.PortsDirectBIException"/>
                    <tx:method name="changePassword" propagation="REQUIRED" rollback-for="com.portsdirect.sms.bi.PortsDirectBIException"/>
                </tx:attributes>
        </tx:advice>

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Here, method changePassword is an action-method (set as an action of a commandButton) in the JSF page, where as, method, sendNewPassword is not an action method. If I call sendNewPassword from inside a different (non transactional) action-method, no transaction is propagated for sendNewPassword. I cannot see the log message from the HibernateTransactionManager saying - opened a new session for transaction, where I can see that in the case of changePassword, which is an action method.

Do I have to add any extra setting to have a non-action-method be transactional ?