Does Spring @Transactional attribute work on a private method?

Question

If I have a @Transactional -annotation on a private method in a Spring bean, does the annotation have any effect?

If the @Transactional annotation is on

Answer 1

If you need to wrap a private method inside a transaction and don't want to use aspectj, you can use TransactionTemplate.

@Service
public class MyService {

    @Autowired
    private TransactionTemplate transactionTemplate;

    private void process(){
        transactionTemplate.execute(new TransactionCallbackWithoutResult() {
            @Override
            protected void doInTransactionWithoutResult(TransactionStatus status) {
                processInTransaction();
            }
        });

    }

    private void processInTransaction(){
        //...
    }

}

Answer 2

The answer is no. Please see Spring Reference: Using @Transactional :

The @Transactional annotation may be placed before an interface definition, a method on an interface, a class definition, or a public method on a class