I am currently migrating to EJB3.1 after using Spring for many years. One thing I would like to implement in EJB, for which I couldn't find a matching pattern yet is my MigrationManager.
In Spring I had a bean that dealt with database schema and data migration. For this I implemented a Spring BeanFactoryPostProcessor because this way I had the database connection injected, but the JPA system is not yet initialized. So I could perform all migration steps and then have the application finishing starting.
How can I do something like this in EJB3.1 (Using CDI ... if this is of importance)
Chris
This is the way to run some initialization code from an EJB:
#Singleton
#Startup
public class MigrationManager {
#PostConstruct
public void migrate() {
// do work
}
}
You don't need a separate app for that (as suggested in a comment above).
EntityManagers get instantiated lazily, so as long as you don't inject an EntityManager into some other startup code, this should give you a chance to update your database schema before an EntityManager is actually hitting the database.
By the way, for database schema migration I'd recommend Liquibase, which can be triggered by a ServletContextListener.
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We are migrating 1.1 StartUp bean which previously used IBM interfaces:
<session id="StartUp">
<ejb-name>StartUp</ejb-name>
<home>com.ibm.websphere.startupservice.AppStartUpHome</home>
<remote>com.ibm.websphere.startupservice.AppStartUp</remote>
<ejb-class>org.bean.StartUpBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateful</session-type>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
</session>
to EJB 3.1 standard. So far we wrote code for bean without usage of IBM propertialy implementation:
#Startup
#Singleton
public class StartUpBean{
#PostConstruct
public void start() {
...
helper.runHelper(); // in new class
}
}
At first we had problems with deployment order, because StartupBean was starting immediately after module. We solved that using different order in application.xml. However one problem still remains.
In helper method called from start method of this bean we have some code that lookups stateless 1.1 bean using JNDI name. That bean creates new entity bean (1.1) invoking method create in new transaction (using reguires_new in xml descriptor). Then it should commit that transaction in order to persist that entity and calls finder which search that record in database. It looks like:
void runHelper(){
...
oldRemote = Server.lookup(OldBean.JNDI, OldBean.class);
oldBean.prepareApp(); //prepareApp has requires new transaction attribute
findThatNewEntity(key); // FinderException (not in database)
}
And in old stateless bean 1.1
void prepareApp(){
entityHome = Server.lookup(JNDI_NAME, Data.class);
entityHome.create(key, value, value2);
}
I am 100 % sure, that in previous version of StartUp bean that was using IBM interfaces, entity was created and stored. Now it is not. I am affraid that transactions aren't somewhat supported at point whe application is starting. Is it so? Or is there any way how to force using transactions or some kind of workaround? Thank you.
I was working on a project using Spring boot, Spring MVC, and Hibernate. I encountered this problem which had already taken me 2 days.
My project was an imitation of twitter. When I started to work on the project, I used the JPA to get the Hibernate Session. Here is the code in my BaseDaoImpl class:
#Autowired
private EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;
public Session getSession(){
return entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager().unwrap(Session.class);
}
In my Service class, I used the #Transactional annotation:
#Service("userServ")
#Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED, readOnly=false,rollbackFor={Exception.class, RuntimeException.class})
public class UserServImpl implements IUserServ {}
And finally, an overview of my main class:
#SpringBootApplication
#EnableTransactionManagement
#EntityScan(basePackages = {"edu.miis.Entities"})
#ComponentScan({"edu.miis.Controllers","edu.miis.Service","edu.miis.Dao"})
#EnableAutoConfiguration
#Configuration
public class FinalProjectSpringbootHibernateDruidApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(FinalProjectSpringbootHibernateDruidApplication.class, args);
}
}
When I was using this setting, everything seemed fine - until I was able to move up to a the extent where I started to add "post" function. I could add posts and comments into the database. However, I could not do this a lot of times. Every time I added up to 4 posts, the program ceased to run - no exceptions, no errors - the page just got stuck there.
I looked up online, realizing that the problem was probably due to the entityManagerFactory. I was told that entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager().unwrap(Session.class)opens new Hibernate sessions, instead of the traditional sessionFactory.getCurrentSession() that returns an existing session.
So I started to work on it. I changed my Dao configuration into this:
#Autowired
private EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory;
public Session getSession(){
Session session = entityManagerFactory.unwrap(SessionFactory.class).getCurrentSession();
return session;
}
My idea was to use the autowired EntityManagerFactory to return a Hibernate SessionFactory so that the getCurrentSession method can be then used.
But then I got problem:
Since I configured to this setting, any operation that involves input from controller to the service-dao-database invokes an exception: No Transaction Is In Progress
But the weird thing is: although the system broke due to no visible transaction in progress, Hibernate still generates new SQL statements, and data still get synchronized into the database.
Can anybody help me over how to get this issue resolved?
Sincerely thanks!
Following #M. Deinum's suggestion, I finally had this issue resolved.
The reason why the #Transactional annotation didn't work in my code in the first place, was because in my original code, I used plain Hibernate features - Session, SessionFactory, getCurrentSession() etc.
In order for these features to work, I need to specifically configure the transaction manager into a Hibernate Transaction Manager (under default setting, Spring boot autowires a JPA transaction manager).
But the problem is: most of methods that were used to support Hibernate features are now deprecated. Now, the JPA method is the mainstream.
Use EntityManager instead of Session/
Use EntityManager.persist instead of Session.save
Use EntityManager.merge instead of Session.update
Use EntityManager.remove instead of Session.remove.
That's all.
Thanks!
I am trying to understand the transactions management and try to use its power in my already existing application developed in Struts 2, EJB 3 and hibernate 5.2.
Now I have ejb in my business layer like below
#Stateless
#TransactionManagement(TransactionManagementType.CONTAINER)
public class MyEJb implements ejbxyz {
#Override
public void method(){
Dao dao=new Dao() //Dao class is simple java class
dao.fooMethod(); //this method updates some record
dao.barMethod(); // this method updates some other record
}
}
public class Dao{
fooMethid(){
Session session=sessFactory.openSession();
session.beginTransaction();
session.update(x);
}
barMethod(){
try{
Session session=sessFactory.getCurrentSession();
session.getNamedQuery("xyz").executeUpdate();
}catch(HibernateException ex){
session.getTransaction.rollback();
}
}
}
I understand that Transaction management should be done at service layer(at ejb in my case). But how can I achieve this over there. ?
Now the dependency is if barMethod() fails to update the record then I need to rollback the changes made in fooMethod. So basically I need both the methods to be done in one transaction.
When I execute the application it throws the below exception
Exception while barMethod getNamedQuery is not valid without active transaction
Its because I am not beginning any transaction in barMethod. But then I really dont want to start a new transaction and want to continue with the older transaction started in fooMethod.
Container managed transactions are indeed suported out of the box for EJB beans. However, your Dao class is not a managed bean - it is a regular pojo that you instantiate manualy - therefore it does not participate in any transaction started by your other ejb.
So move your Dao to separate file, annotate it with #Stateless and then inject it into your service using #EJB private Dao dao;
There is more to transactions in Ejb container though. You can control the transaction support on method level via #TransactionAttribute annotation, that specifies how should the container invoke your method with regard to transaction. That way you can control, whether your method requires its own transaction, or if it shall participate in a transaction initiated by the caller(e.g. when invoked from ejb bean). For more info have a look at official Java EE tutorial
I'm developing a REST API with jersey. Now I have to persist the entities with JPA and as I learned in university I "openend" a DB Connection with the following code:
EntityManagerFactory factory = javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("LootDB");
EntityManager em = factory.createEntityManager();
I'm using the code above in EVERY RESOURCE. But I think this is a bad design. Because I don't know about Spring and dependency injection, I have to create the persistence instances manually.
Is there something wrong? In the database I can observe just 2 openened connections and I never get concurrency issues.
any help is appreciated...
You can define a class which spring bean scope is singleton.For accessing that class instance use #Autowired annotation.After that you can access the factory instance with it in everywhere.
I have a Transaction problem on Spring 3.0.5. In my case I get the so-called exception "No Hibernate Session bound to thread, and configuration does not allow creation of non-transactional one here"... I have tried everything so far. I can see in my log that the transactional services are detected and registered as Spring beans and I can also see in the logs that they are proxied and associated with underlying Spring transaction interceptors. (Advise) When I run my Spring MVC app my controller will call the service...... :-( but the transaction interceptors are not triggered. (??) I expect my Spring service proxy to open a session and start a transaction before calling my target service method. Since this does not happen, I get the above exception. I have been almost two days on this problem. Tried everything which I found on the internet...but in vain.
I have layered architecture: presentation (springmvc), service (transaction annotated), dataacess (Spring/Hibernate classic sessionfactory). My model objects are annotated with jpa (javax.persistence.*). My spring context config files are separated in appContext.xml, appContext-service.xml and appContext-dao.xml. I have defined my Spring LocalSessionFactoryBean, Datasource and TransactionManager (HibernateTransactionManager) in appContext-dao.xml. I have put in appContext-service.xml where my service implementations resides. In all of my config files I have included and to detect my beans through Controller, Service and Repository annotations.
I appreciate any kind of help.
It sounds like you are doing everything correctly and you know what you are doing. There's not much we can do here unless you show some configuration.
What I'd suggest is some debugging.
First: do you have Unit tests in the service layer that test the queries you are using? Perhaps you can find the error in the service layer.
Then: debug the MVC app, check the types of the injected services. Verify that they are proxies, not the original types.
If they are the original types, you
have an error in your transaction
configuration .
If they are proxies, step through the
query methods and verify that the
transaction logic is applied.
This sounds like accessing a lazily-loaded list or set of you dao after the closing of the transaction. This typically happens if you access that list in the view in stead of the controller, as your controller probably calls methods in transaction scope, and then leaves the transaction and forwards the loaded bean to the view.
Simple solutions:
Configure your data bean to eagerly load
Force loading of the dependencies in the controller (just loop through them)
have a look at this article ans possibly also quite a few right here on SO on lazy loading / lazy fetching of one-to-many associations and the like
Imagine:
// your dao
public class Foo {
// lots of other properties
List<Something> stuff;
// getters and setter for stuff
}
// repository
#Transactional
public class FooRepo {
public Foo loadFoo(int id) {
...
}
}
// Controller
public class Controller {
public void Control() {
sessionContext.set("foo", repo.loadFoo(1)); // transaction managed by spring
}
public void setFooRepo(FooRepo repo) {this.repo = repo};
}
// View
for (Something something : foo.getStuff()) {
// Ooops transaction is closed! stuff is lazily loaded so NOT AVAILABLE
// practical solutions:
// - do not load lazily (Foo.hbm.xml)
// - or force loading by getting all Somethings in the controller
}