No rollback only for transaction when exception occurs in submethod

Question

I\'m using Hibernate + spring + @Transactional annotations to handle transactions in my application.

Transaction manager is declared as follows:

Answer 1

You may also need to turn off globalRollbackOnParticipationFailure.

I had this problem when I had an independent transaction within a surrounding transaction. When the independent transaction failed, it also failed the surrounding transaction.

Turning off the participation flag solved this for me:

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
    <property name="globalRollbackOnParticipationFailure" value="false" />
    <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

Answer 2

Create another annotation, e.g. @NoRollbackTransactional, something like:

@Transactional(noRollbackFor = RuntimeException.class)
public @interface NoRollbackTransactional {
}

And use this on your methods. On the other hand I agree with Donal's comment, you should revise your transaction scopes, imho it is generally not a good idea to call @Transactional from another @Transactional.