Transaction Configuration

[jebscar]

I have been unable to find the answer to what seems like a simple questions. How do you configure spring to manage transactions across service level methods? For example if I wanted to do something similar to :

serviceA.save();
if(condition == true)
serviceB.save();


As is configuration stands now the two service calls run in two separate transactions. Is there a way to run these within one transaction or is this simply bad design?

Cheers.

[Marten Deinum]

serviceA.save();
if(condition == true)
serviceB.save();

The code above should be wrapped in another service which is transactional and thus 1 transaction is created.

[cgdavies]

Expanding on mdeinum's response, when you're nesting transactions, you can configure how Spring should behave. See: http://static.springframework.org/sp...efinition.html

You're interested in applying PROPAGATION_REQUIRED to serviceA, serviceB and the enclosing service (the one described by mdeinum). This means that if Spring finds a transaction already open, it'll re-use it. If it doesn't find one, it'll open a new one.