Pulp dental system Transaction Management Framework

The Spring transaction management framework provides an abstraction mechanism to the Java platform. His abstraction is capable of:

Working with local and global transactions (the local transaction does not require an application server)

Working with nested transactions

Working with backup points

Working in almost all environments of the Java platform

By comparison, JTA supports only nested transactions and global transactions, and requires an application server (and in some cases also deploying applications to an application server)

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The Spring Framework embeds a PlatformTransactionManager for a number of transaction management strategies:

Transactions managed on a JDBC connection

Managed Transactions on Object-Relational Mapping Work Units

Transactions managed via JTA TransactionManager and UserTransaction

Transactions managed on other resources, such as object databases

Next to this abstraction mechanism, the framework also provides two ways to add transaction management to applications:

Programmatically, using Spring TransactionTemplate

Configuratively, using metadata like XML or Java annotations (@Transactional, etc.)

With the Spring data access framework - which integrates the transaction management framework - it is possible to configure a transactional system through configuration without having to rely on JTA or EJB. The transactional framework also integrates with messaging and caching engines.