EntityManager.persist() not inserting into DB

[Sreekar]

I'm new to spring, i have a problem inserting data into DB. I'm able to fetch the data and update the data but not able to insert new row. I see no exception/error in the logs. I have attached both logs and the spring beans xml. Pls help

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Using Spring 3.1.2, Hibernate 4.1.6, MySQL as the DB