Pitchfork and EJB3 CMT (via @TransactionAttribution)

[jnorris]

I am trying to use pitchfork for EJB3 testing (ie: JPA, @EntityManager injection, @EJB injection and CMT transactions on @TransactionAttribute boundaries, etc.). JPA and EJB injection works great. However, EJB @TransactionAttribute annotations are not having any effect. (If I add a spring @Transactional annotation everything works well).

I have the following Spring configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">

	<!-- Define the data source -->
	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.SingleConnectionDataSource">
		<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
		<property name="password" value="****" />
		<property name="username" value="****" />
		<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://****:3306/test" />
		<property name="suppressClose" value="true" />
	</bean>
	
	<!-- Configure the entity manager factory -->
	<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
		<property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="classpath:META-INF/persistence-test.xml" />
		<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="test" />
		<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
			<!-- Hibernate -->
			<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter">
				<property name="databasePlatform" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect" />
				<property name="generateDdl" value="false" />
			</bean>
		</property>
	</bean>

	<!-- we need a transaction manager for JPA -->
	<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
		<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
	</bean>
	
	<!-- enable the configuration of transactional behavior based on annotations -->
	<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager"/>

	<!-- EJB post processor -->
	<bean class="org.springframework.jee.ejb.config.JeeBeanFactoryPostProcessor" />

	<!-- Allows spring to scan all beans for persistence annotations -->
	<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />
	
	<!-- Beans that we'd like JEE injection for -->
	<bean class="com.test.TestServiceBean " />

</beans>

I have a simple EJB3 stateless bean like follows:

@Stateless
public class TestServiceBean implements TestService {

    protected TestServiceBean () {
        super();
    }
    
    //@Transactional here works!
    @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
    public void operation() {
        ...
    }

}

Is there anything wrong with my pitchfork configuration? Why isn't the EJB @TransactionAttribute being picked up?

Interesting, I am getting debugging information that is suggesting the annotations are being at least considered:

[org.springframework.jee.inject.TransactionProcessor] adding txAttribute @javax.ejb.TransactionAttribute(value=REQUIRED) to method public void operation() ...

Thanks.

[trisberg]

Did you specify a ServiceEnvironment? I did some experimenting a while ago and this is what I used:

  <bean class="org.springframework.jee.config.JeeBeanFactoryPostProcessor">
    <property name="serviceEnvironment">
      <bean class="org.springframework.jee.config.SimpleServiceEnvironment">
        <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>
      </bean>
    </property>
  </bean>

[jnorris]

Thank you very much, that works well.