Starting with version 5.0, a new TransactionHandleMessageAdvice has been introduced to make the whole downstream flow transactional, thanks to the HandleMessageAdvice implementation. When a regular TransactionInterceptor is used in the <request-handler-advice-chain> element (for example, through configuring <tx:advice>), a started transaction is applied only for an internal AbstractReplyProducingMessageHandler.handleRequestMessage() and is not propagated to the downstream flow.spring-doc.cn

To simplify XML configuration, along with the <request-handler-advice-chain>, a <transactional> element has been added to all <outbound-gateway> and <service-activator> and related components. The following example shows <transactional> in use:spring-doc.cn

<int-jdbc:outbound-gateway query="select * from things where id=:headers[id]">
        <int-jdbc:transactional/>
</int-jdbc:outbound-gateway>

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.mockito.Mockito" factory-method="mock">
    <constructor-arg value="org.springframework.transaction.TransactionManager"/>
</bean>

If you are familiar with the JPA integration components, such a configuration is not new, but now we can start a transaction from any point in our flow — not only from the <poller> or a message-driven channel adapter such as JMS.spring-doc.cn

Java configuration can be simplified by using the TransactionInterceptorBuilder, and the result bean name can be used in the messaging annotations adviceChain attribute, as the following example shows:spring-doc.cn

@Bean
public ConcurrentMetadataStore store() {
    return new SimpleMetadataStore(hazelcastInstance()
                       .getMap("idempotentReceiverMetadataStore"));
}

@Bean
public IdempotentReceiverInterceptor idempotentReceiverInterceptor() {
    return new IdempotentReceiverInterceptor(
            new MetadataStoreSelector(
                    message -> message.getPayload().toString(),
                    message -> message.getPayload().toString().toUpperCase(), store()));
}

@Bean
public TransactionInterceptor transactionInterceptor() {
    return new TransactionInterceptorBuilder(true)
                .transactionManager(this.transactionManager)
                .isolation(Isolation.READ_COMMITTED)
                .propagation(Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
                .build();
}

@Bean
@org.springframework.integration.annotation.Transformer(inputChannel = "input",
         outputChannel = "output",
         adviceChain = { "idempotentReceiverInterceptor",
                 "transactionInterceptor" })
public Transformer transformer() {
    return message -> message;
}

Note the true parameter on the TransactionInterceptorBuilder constructor. It causes the creation of a TransactionHandleMessageAdvice, not a regular TransactionInterceptor.spring-doc.cn

Java DSL supports an Advice through the .transactional() options on the endpoint configuration, as the following example shows:spring-doc.cn

@Bean
public IntegrationFlow updatingGatewayFlow() {
    return f -> f
        .handle(Jpa.updatingGateway(this.entityManagerFactory),
                e -> e.transactional(true))
        .channel(c -> c.queue("persistResults"));
}