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Are #Transactional and packagesToScan are interlinked?

com.service.EmployeeService has method create createEmployee which calls method under dao class i.e com.dao.EmployeeDao(having EntityManager as dependency).
Now i want to make method createEmployee transactional with #Transactional. Is it mandatoty to declare the package com.service
under packagesToScan in spring config file ?
I mean is it mandatory to declare the package of class using #Transactional under packagesToScan to make it work ?
FYI I referred the how-does-spring-transactional-really-work to understand how spring transactions works internally

#Transactional is used on a class or method for the transaction management whereas packagesToScan is used by spring for scanning annotations on your entity classes
<property name="packagesToScan">
<list>
<value>com.xyz.EntityName</value>
</list>
</property>
I used #Transactional on my DaoImpl methods(CRUD) and used packagesToScan on the entities for spring to pick.
When you use spring with hibernate it is the responsibility of the spring's class i.e org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean
as in <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
instead of Hibernate's new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory()
Moreover in hibernate you use to tell hibernate to consider the entities which are using annotation as in hibrnate.cfg.xml by using
<mapping class="com.hiber.hr.Countries"/>
<mapping class="com.hiber.hr.Departments"/>
Similarly you need to tell spring the same through packagesToScan property.
Internally Spring calls the Hibernate's addAnnotatedClass method of org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration class
Hibernate method called from Spring:-
public Configuration addAnnotatedClass(Class annotatedClass)
{
XClass xClass = reflectionManager.toXClass(annotatedClass);
metadataSourceQueue.add(xClass);
return this;
}

Transactional makes a Spring bean method transactional.
packagesToScan is a property of the Spring sessionFactory / entityManagerFactory beans, that tell them where to find JPA entities.
They are completely orthogonal. Entities are not Spring beans. And transactional Spring beans are not entities that must be found by the SessionFactory / EntityManagerFactory.

How to configure two hibernate transactionManager for two different sessions

I have a project which deals with two different database instances.
Each access to a database is transactional, but the transaction on database1 do not need to be linked to transaction on database2.
I am using Hibernate and spring-tx 4.0.3 Release, spring Ioc4 and hibernate4.
I use #Transactional annotation in my DAO services.
So I configure two datasource beans, two sessionFactory beans and two HibernateTransactionManager beans.
But doing so, I get an UniqueBeanException as the TransactionAspectSupport.determineTransactionManager tries to find only one instance of class implementing PlatformTransactionManager interface.
I have seen that I can make my java configuration class implements TransactionManagementConfigurer, so that I can specifically tell which transaction-manager bean to use, and I was hoping to implement a ProxyTransactionManager who could delegate to each appropriate transaction-manager depending on which database the current call need to be made.
The problem is implementing such ProxyPlatformTransactionManager methods, how can I know which database is being accessed, or which SessionFactory is being accessed? Otherwise I an not know which PlatformTransactionManager to use.
Has anyone faced that type of issue yet?
Thanks,
Mel

In your application context, you need to define 2 transactionalManagers as below
<bean id="txMngr1" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory1">
<qualifier value="txMngr1"/>
</bean>
<bean id="txMngr2" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory2">
<qualifier value="txMngr2"/>
</bean>
And then use the Transactional Qualifier with your DAOs/Services.
#Transactional("txMngr2")
FYI: You can access multiple sessionFactories from your code using qualifiers as well
#Autowired
#Qualifier(value="sessionFactory2")
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

How to intercept JDBC queries with Hibernate/Spring/Tomcat?

I'm trying to implement the solution outlined in this answer. The short of it is: I want to set the role for each database connection in order to provide better data separation for different customers. This requires intercepting JDBC queries or transactions, setting the user before the query runs and resetting it afterwards. This is mainly done to comply with some regulatory requirements.
Currently I'm using Tomcat and Tomcat's JDBC pool connecting to a PostgreSQL database. The application is built with Spring and Hibernate. So far I couldn't find any point for intercepting the queries.
I tried JDBC interceptors for Tomcat's built in pool but they have to be global and I need to access data from my Web appliation in order to correlate requests to database users. As far as I see, Hibernate's interceptors work only on entities which is too high level for this use case.
What I need is something like the following:
class ConnectionPoolCallback {
void onConnectionRetrieved(Connection conn) {
conn.execute("SET ROLE " + getRole()); // getRole is some magic
}
void onConnectionReturned(Connection conn) {
conn.execute("RESET ROLE");
}
}
And now I need a place to register this callback... Does anybody have any idea how to implement something like this?

Hibernate 4 has multitenancy support. For plain sql you will need datasource routing which I believe spring has now or is an addon.
I would not mess ( ie extend) the pool library.

Option 1:
As Adam mentioned, use Hibernate 4's multi-tenant support. Read the docs on Hibernate multi-tenancy and then implement the MultiTenantConnectionProvider and CurrentTenantIdentifierResolver interfaces.
In the getConnection method, call SET ROLE as you've done above. Although it's at the Hibernate level, this hook is pretty close in functionality to what you asked for in your question.
Option 2:
I tried JDBC interceptors for Tomcat's built in pool but they have to
be global and I need to access data from my Web appliation in order to
correlate requests to database users.
If you can reconfigure your app to define the connection pool as a Spring bean rather than obtain it from Tomcat, you can probably add your own hook by proxying the data source:
<!-- I like c3p0, but use whatever pool you want -->
<bean id="actualDataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource">
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="${db.url}"/>
<property name="user" value="${db.user}" />
.....
<!-- uses the actual data source. name it "dataSource". i believe the Spring tx
stuff looks for a bean named "dataSource". -->
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.musiKk.RoleSettingDSProxy">
<property name="actualDataSource"><ref bean="actualDataSource" /></property>
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource"><ref bean="dataSource" /></property>
....
And then build com.musiKk.RoleSettingDSProxy like this:
public class RoleSettingDSProxy implements DataSource {
private DataSource actualDataSource;
public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
Connection con = actualDataSource.getConnection();
// do your thing here. reference a thread local set by
// a servlet filter to get the current tenant and set the role
return con;
}
public void setActualDataSource(DataSource actualDataSource) {
this.actualDataSource = actualDataSource;
}
Note that I haven't actually tried option 2, it's just an idea. I can't immediately think of any reason why it wouldn't work, but it may unravel on you for some reason if you try to implement it.

One solution that comes to mind is to utilize the Hibernate listeners/callbacks. But do beware that is very low level and quite error-prone. I use it myself to get a certain degree of automated audit logging going; it was not a pretty development cycle to get it to work reliably. unfortunately I can't share code since I don't own it.
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/entitymanager/3.6/reference/en/html/listeners.html

What's the best way to share a connection between Hibernate's SessionFactory and a JDBC DAO?

I'm using Spring 3.0.6, with Hibernate 3.2.7.GA in a Java-based webapp. I'm declaring transactions with #Transactional annotations on the controllers (as opposed to in the service layer). Most of the views are read-only.
The problem is, I've got some DAOs which are using JdbcTemplate to query the database directly with SQL, and they're being called outside of a transaction. Which means they're not reusing the Hibernate SessionFactory's connection. The reason they're outside the transaction is that I'm using converters on method parameters in the controller, like so:
#Controller
#Transactional
public class MyController {
#RequestMapping(value="/foo/{fooId}", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView get(#PathVariable("fooId") Foo foo) {
// do something with foo, and return a new ModelAndView
}
}
public class FooConverter implements Converter<String, Foo> {
#Override
public Foo convert(String fooId) {
// call FooService, which calls FooJdbcDao to look up the Foo for fooId
}
}
My JDBC DAO relies on SimpleJdbcDaoSupport to have the jdbcTemplate injected:
#Repository("fooDao")
public class FooJdbcDao extends SimpleJdbcDaoSupport implements FooDao {
public Foo findById(String fooId) {
getJdbcTemplate().queryForObject("select * from foo where ...", new FooRowMapper());
// map to a Foo object, and return it
}
}
and my applicationContext.xml wires it all together:
<mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService"/>
<bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean">
<property name="converters">
<set>
<bean class="FooConverter"/>
<!-- other converters -->
</set>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="jdbcTemplate" class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory" />
FooConverter (which converts a path variable String to a Foo object) gets called before MyController#get() is called, so the transaction hasn't been started yet. Thus when FooJdbcDAO is called to query the database, it has no way of reusing the SessionFactory's connection, and has to check out its own connection from the pool.
So my questions are:
Is there any way to share a database connection between the SessionFactory and my JDBC DAOs? I'm using HibernateTransactionManager, and from looking at Spring's DataSourceUtils it appears that sharing a transaction is the only way to share the connection.
If the answer to #1 is no, then is there a way to configure OpenSessionInViewFilter to just start a transaction for us, at the beginning of the request? I'm using "on_close" for the hibernate.connection.release_mode, so the Hibernate Session and Connection are already staying open for the life of the request.
The reason this is important to me is that I'm experiencing problems under heavy load where each thread is checking out 2 connections from the pool: the first is checked out by hibernate and saved for the whole length of the thread, and the 2nd is checked out every time a JDBC DAO needs one for a query outside of a transaction. This causes deadlocks when the 2nd connection can't be checked out because the pool is empty, but the first connection is still held. My preferred solution is to make all JDBC DAOs participate in Hibernate's transaction, so that TransactionSynchronizationManager will correctly share the one single connection.

Is there any way to share a database connection between the SessionFactory and my JDBC DAOs? I'm using HibernateTransactionManager, and from looking at Spring's DataSourceUtils it appears that sharing a transaction is the only way to share the connection.
--> Well you can share database connection between SessionFactory and JdbcTemplate. What you need to do is share same datasource between the two. Connection pooling is also shared between the two. I am using it in my application.
What you need to do is configure HibernateTransactionManager for both transactions.
Add JdbcDao class(with properties jdbcTemplate and dataSource with getter-setter) in your existing package structure(in dao package/layer), Extend your jdbc implementation classes by JdbcDao. If you have configured, hibernateTxManager for hibernate, you will not need to configure it.
The problem is, I've got some DAOs which are using JdbcTemplate to query the database directly with SQL, and they're being called outside of a transaction. Which means they're not reusing the Hibernate SessionFactory's connection.
--> You may be wrong here. You may be using same connection, I think, only problem may lie in HibernateTransaction configuration.
Check HibernateTransactionManager javadoc : This transaction manager is appropriate for applications that use a single Hibernate SessionFactory for transactional data access, but it also supports direct DataSource access within a transaction (i.e. plain JDBC code working with the same DataSource). This allows for mixing services which access Hibernate and services which use plain JDBC (without being aware of Hibernate)!
Check my question : Using Hibernate and Jdbc both in Spring Framework 3.0
Configuration : Add dao classes and service classes with your current hibernate classes, do not make separate packages for them, If you want to work with existing configuration. Otherwise configure HibernateTransactionManager in xml configuration and Use #Transactional annotation.
Mistake in your code :
#Controller
#Transactional
public class MyController {......
Use #Transactional annotation in service classes(best practice).
Correction :
#Transactional(readOnly = true)
public class FooService implements FooService {
public Foo getFoo(String fooName) {
// do something
}
// these settings have precedence for this method
#Transactional(readOnly = false, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW)
public void updateFoo(Foo foo) {
// do something
}
}

Spring scoped-proxy transactions are fine via JPA but not commiting via JDBC

I have a situation where I have to handle multiple clients in one app and each client has separate database. To support that I'm using Spring custom scope, quite similar to the built in request scope. A user authenticates in each request and can set context client ID based passed credentials. The scoping itself seems to be working properly.
So I used my custom scope to create a scoped-proxy for my DataSource to support a diffrent database per client. And I get connections to proper databases.
Than I created a scoped-proxy for EntityManagerFactory to use JPA. And this part also looks OK.
Than I added a scoped-proxy for PlatformTransactionManager for declarative transaction management. I use #Transactional on my service layer and it gets propagated nicely to my SpringData powered repository layer.
All is fine and works correctly as long a s I use only JPA. I can even switch context to a diffrent client within the request (I use ThreadLocals under the hood) and transactions to both databases are handled correctly.
The problems start when I try to use JDBCTempate in one of my custom repositiries. Than at first glance all looks OK too, as no exceptions are thrown. But when I check the database for the objects I thought I inserted with my custom JDBC-based repository the're not there!
I know for sure I can use JPA and JDBC together by declaring only JpaTransactionManager and passing both the DataSource and EntityManagerFactory to it - I checked it and without the scoped-proxies and it works.
So the question is how to make JDBC work together with JPA using the JpaTransactionManager when I have scoped-proxied the DataSource, EntityManagerFactory and PlatformTransactionManager beans? I remind that using only JPA works perfectly, but adding plain JDBC into the mix is not working.
UPDATE1: And one more thing: all readonly (SELECT) operations work fine with JDBC too - only writes (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) end up not commited or rolledback.
UPDATE2: As #Tomasz suggested I've removed scoped proxy from EntityManagerFactory and PlatformTransactionManager as those are indeed not needed and provide more confusion than anything else.
The real problem seems to be switching the scope context within a transaction. The TransactionSynchronizationManager bounds transactional resources (i.e. EMF or DS) to thread at transaction start. It has the ability to unwrap the scoped proxy, so it binds the actual instance of the resource from the scope active at the time of starting a transaction. Then when I change the context within a transaction it all gets messed up.
It seems like I need to suspend the active transaction and store aside the current transaction context to be able to clear it upon entering another scope to make Spring think it's not inside a transaction any more and to force it create one for the new scope when needed. And then when leaving the scope I'd have to restore the previously suspended transaction. Unfortunatelly I was unable to come up with a working implementation yet. Any hints appreciated.
And below is some code of mine, but it's pretty standard, except for the scoped-proxies.
The DataSource:
<!-- provides database name based on client context -->
<bean id="clientDatabaseNameProvider"
class="com.example.common.spring.scope.ClientScopedNameProviderImpl"
c:clientScopeHolder-ref="clientScopeHolder"
p:databaseName="${base.db.name}" />
<!-- an extension of org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource that
uses proper database URL based on database name given by above provider -->
<bean id="jpaDataSource" scope="client"
class="com.example.common.spring.datasource.MysqlDbInitializingDataSource"
destroy-method="close"
p:driverClassName="${mysql.driver}"
p:url="${mysql.url}"
p:databaseNameProvider-ref="clientDatabaseNameProvider"
p:username="${mysql.username}"
p:password="${mysql.password}"
p:defaultAutoCommit="false"
p:connectionProperties="sessionVariables=storage_engine=InnoDB">
<aop:scoped-proxy proxy-target-class="false" />
</bean>
The EntityManagerFactory:
<bean id="jpaVendorAdapter"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"
p:database="MYSQL"
p:generateDdl="true"
p:showSql="true" />
<util:properties id="jpaProperties">
<!-- omitted for readability -->
</util:properties>
<bean id="jpaDialect"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect" />
<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
p:packagesToScan="com.example.model.core"
p:jpaVendorAdapter-ref="jpaVendorAdapter"
p:dataSource-ref="jpaDataSource"
p:jpaDialect-ref="jpaDialect"
p:jpaProperties-ref="jpaProperties" />
The PlatformTracsactionManager:
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager"
p:dataSource-ref="jpaDataSource"
p:entityManagerFactory-ref="entityManagerFactory" />
<tx:annotation-driven proxy-target-class="false" mode="proxy"
transaction-manager="transactionManager" />