Comprehensive transaction support is among the most compelling reasons to use the Spring Framework. The Spring Framework provides a consistent abstraction for transaction management that delivers the following benefits:
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A consistent programming model across different transaction APIs, such as Java Transaction API (JTA), JDBC, Hibernate, and the Java Persistence API (JPA).
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Support for declarative transaction management.
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A simpler API for programmatic transaction management than complex transaction APIs, such as JTA.
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Excellent integration with Spring’s data access abstractions.
The following sections describe the Spring Framework’s transaction features and technologies:
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Advantages of the Spring Framework’s transaction support model describes why you would use the Spring Framework’s transaction abstraction instead of EJB Container-Managed Transactions (CMT) or choosing to drive transactions through a proprietary API.
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Understanding the Spring Framework transaction abstraction outlines the core classes and describes how to configure and obtain
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Synchronizing resources with transactions describes how the application code ensures that resources are created, reused, and cleaned up properly.
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Declarative transaction management describes support for declarative transaction management.
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Programmatic transaction management covers support for programmatic (that is, explicitly coded) transaction management.
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Transaction bound event describes how you could use application events within a transaction.
The chapter also includes discussions of best practices, application server integration, and solutions to common problems.