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27 December 2013

In this tutorial we will configure Spring with JPA using Hibernate as our JPA implementation.

Spring framework supports the persistence layer to be fully implemented through JPA. In this article we will see how to configure the Spring needed components to perform persistence over standard JPA,... Read more

Java EE EJB transaction propagation (@TransactionAttribute) tutorial

08 July 2013

In this tutorial we will see the available transaction propagation behaviours provided by the EJB container using @TransactionAttribute annotation.

While dealing with Container Managed Transactions (CMT) in EJB, the application developer is able to declaratively define how an arbitrary call to an EJB method should behave in terms of transaction p... Read more

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Spring JTA multiple resource transactions in Tomcat with Atomikos example

17 June 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to configure a JTA transaction manager outside an enterprise container - using the Spring framework and Atomikos, both deployed in Tomcat - in order to implement distributed multiple resource (or XA) transactions.

Distributed multiple resource transactions in Java are usually accomplished by resorting to the Java Transaction API (JTA). One usually delegates the task of distributed transaction coordination to an... Read more

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Spring with Hibernate persistence and transactions example

02 January 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to implement Hibernate persistence using the Spring framework in a transactional fashion.

After reading this tutorial you will be able to implement Hibernate persistence using Spring framework. Additionally you will also use Spring Hibernate transaction manager to manage all the transactio... Read more

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Gonçalo Marques is a Software Engineer with several years of experience in software development and architecture definition. During this period his main focus was delivering software solutions in banking, telecommunications and governmental areas. He created the Bytes Lounge website with one ultimate goal: share his knowledge with the software development community. His main area of expertise is Java and open source.

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