Concept Overview Spring has a well developed and highly plugable framework for Web Development. It is based on Model, View and Controller (MVC) Framework. The DispatcherServlet handles the whole show, right from intercepting the request, to delegating the request to appropriate controllers and rendering the view. It follows the FrontController design pattern. To understand the … Read more

Pre-requisite trails Spring Transactions Primer Spring declarative transactions Concept Overview The tutorial on Spring declarative transaction explains how to declare transactions in the xml using the tx namespace. The same namespace also provides an element called &lttx:annotation-driven&gt which can be used be define transactions using annotation. The Transaction Manager can be specified using the transaction-manager … Read more

Pre-requisite trails Spring Transactions Primer Concept Overview Declarative transaction is a spring transaction strategy. The other strategies are programmatic transaction and local transaction. There are two ways to accomplish declarative transaction, through xml or through annotations. In this tutorial we look at xml based declarative transaction. The advantage of a declarative transaction is that all … Read more

Pre-requisite trails Spring Transactions Primer Concept Overview There are predominantly three transaction strategies for spring based transactions – Local Transactions, programmatic transactions and declarative transactions. In this tutorial we look at programmatic transactions. Programmatic transactions give a greater control to the user in setting up the transaction boundaries. It is possible to set up transaction … Read more

What are transaction attributes? Spring transactions allow setting up the propagation behavior, isolation, timeout and read only settings of a transaction. Before we delve into the details, here are some points that need to be kept in mind Isolation level and timeout settings get applied only after the transaction starts. Not all transaction managers specify … Read more

Introduction An understanding of distributed transactions is not required to understand spring transactions, however, we present it here since it would be good to get the complete picture. Many times a transaction spans multiple systems (on separate hosts). For example, a single transaction may involve a messaging system and a database. Distributed transactions must satisfy … Read more

What is a Transaction? Transaction is an activity or group of activities that are performed as a single unit of work. The characteristic of a transaction is that either all the activities that are part of the transaction are performed or none are performed. In other words, even if one of the activity fails then … Read more

Prerequisite Trails Spring Hibernate Dao Support Spring Hibernate Integration using SessionFactory Concept Overview JPA (Java Persistence API) – JPA is a persistence framework for Object Relational Mapping. It is based on POJO (Plain Old Java Object). It was born out of the complexity experienced in EJB2. It can be used in both EJB and non-EJB … Read more

Prerequisite Trails Spring Hibernate Dao Support Spring Hibernate Integration using SessionFactory Concept Overview This tutorial shows how to use annotations to wire a LocalSessionFactoryBean into the SessionFactory object of a DAO. The hibernate session is then obtained from this session factory using the getCurrentSession() method. By default the session uses a SpringSessionContext for the hibernate … Read more

Prerequisite Trails Spring Hibernate Dao Support Concept Overview In the previous tutorial we saw how HibernateTemplate can be used in a HibernateSupportDao to perform Hibernate based database operations. However, it is possible to directly obtain a Hibernate session using the getSession() method of the Hibernate SessionFactory. Wire a LocalSessionFactoryBean into the DAO as a SessionFactory … Read more