@Transactional behaviour

[vij123456]

Hi All,

I have a core library which exposes multiple services. Whenever these services call a Dao to update the database I've marked them with @transactional . However, if they just read the database through the Dao, I leave them with no annotation.

I didn't have any problem when I used HibernateDaoSupport/HibernateTemplate. When I wanted to use plain hibernate 3 api I am hitting an issue.

1) HibernateTemplate uses getSession(SessionFactory, allowCreate) in SessionFactoryUtils to get a session. So, even if I don't mark a service as transactional, I get a session back.

2) In the new approach (plain hibernate 3 api), I checked that general opinion is to use sessionFactory.getCurrentSession() which returns a session only if transaction is there else returns an illegal state exception.

My question is, can I use SessionFactoryUtils.getSession(sessionFactory,true ) to get the current session? It looks like it works. But, do you see any issue in doing this..

The alternative is I need to mark all my non-commiting serivces as "@transactional" which is a lot of change.