Transactions and job execution

[sseaman]

I have a chunk of code to start a job as well as record some external information on who started the job like so:

	@Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)
	public JobBean startJob(String username, String jobName, String parameters) {
		try {
			long jobExecutionId = jobOperator.start(jobName, parameters);
			this.recordJobExecutionInfo(jobExecutionId, username, null);
			return new JobBean(jobExplorer.getJobExecution(jobExecutionId));
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new JobServiceException(e);
		}
	}

and beans defined as:

    <bean id="jobOperator" class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobOperator">
        <property name="jobExplorer" ref="jobExplorer"/>
        <property name="jobLauncher" ref="jobLauncher"/>
        <property name="jobRegistry" ref="jobRegistry"/>
        <property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository"/>
    </bean>    
    
    <bean id="jobRepository" class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.JobRepositoryFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
        <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
        <property name="lobHandler" ref="lobHandler"/>
        <property name="isolationLevelForCreate" value="ISOLATION_DEFAULT"/>
<!-- 		<property name="validateTransactionState" value="false"/> -->
    </bean>

With the Transaction defined as REQUIRED, the job hangs. This looks to be something along the lines of what
was reported in https://jira.springsource.org/browse/BATCH-1668

If I remove the Transactional definition the job runs fine.

Is there any way to get the job to run and still have this Transaction?