Declarative or Programmatic Transaction in Spring

Question

What type of transaction management strategy we should use in Spring? Declarative or Programmatic? Which one is better and under what situation one should use it? Can you give a

Answer 1

Programmatic Transaction Management

1. Allows us to manage transactions through programming in our source code.
2. This means hardcoding transaction logic between our business logic.
3. We use programming to manage transactions
4. Flexible, but difficult to maintain with large amount of business logic. Introduces boilerplate between business logic.
5. Preferred when relative less transaction logic is to be introduced.

Declarative Transaction Management

1. Allows us to manage transactions through configuration.
2. This means separating transaction logic with business logic.
3. We use annotations (Or XML files) to manage transactions.
4. Easy to maintain. Boilerplate is kept away from business logic.
5. Preferred when working with large amount of Transaction logic.