Combination hibernate @Transactional & ehcache @Cacheable always creates DB transaction

Question

While doing loadtesting on our application I noticed that if you use @Transactional and @Cacheable annotions that hibernate always creates a database transaction. Is there an ea

Answer 1

You need to change relative order of @Transactional and @Cacheable aspects.

It can be configured using order attribute of <tx:annotation-driven> and <cache:annotation-driven>. See 8.2.4.7 Advice ordering for the meaning of order values.