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Re: _at_Transactional in Spring not really using JTA [SOLVED]

From: Marina Vatkina <Marina.Vatkina_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:32:35 -0700

That makes sense, because when GlassFish is in charge, we do set this property
automatically for both, TLE, and Hibernate, to simplify user's access.

Regards,
-marina

Ryan de Laplante wrote:
> I found the solution! When using JPA in Spring you have to tell the JPA
> provider how to find the JTA transaction manager in persistence.xml :
>
> For GlassFish's built-in TopLink Essentials (JPA RI) :
>
> <properties>
> <property name="toplink.target-server" value="SunAS9"/>
> </properties>
>
>
> For Hibernate Entity Manager :
>
> <properties>
> <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class"
> value="org.hibernate.transaction.SunONETransactionManagerLookup"/>
> </properties>
>
>
> Nowhere on the Internet will you find a complete example on how to
> create a Maven2 project to be run on GlassFish that uses the built-in
> JTA and JPA providers, and only swap out EJB for Spring 2.5.5. Also how
> to get the unit test environment set up for this. Soon I am going to
> write a GlassFish Users FAQ and blog entry on how to do this.
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
> Ryan de Laplante wrote:
>
>> I think you are referring to my own thread:
>>
>> http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=294441&#294441
>>
>> I thought I had it working but it turns out JTA isn't being used.
>> When I run select queries everything works great. When I do a
>> entityManager.merge(someEntity) it tells me that there is no active
>> transaction.
>>
>> I found this thread in the Spring forums where someone else had the
>> same problem. They said switching to Hibernate for JPA provider made
>> JTA work:
>>
>> http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=36573
>>
>> I'm going to give that a try shortly if I don't find another solution
>> in the GlassFish forums.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>>
>> Marina Vatkina wrote:
>>
>>> Did you try to search GF forum? There were discussions about problems
>>> and solutions not so long ago.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> -marina
>>>
>>> Ryan de Laplante wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have Spring 2.5 configured to use JTA and TopLink. The logs show
>>>> that it detected JTA in GlassFish, and I am able to do SELECT
>>>> queries with JPA. When I try to add/change/delete a record it tells
>>>> me that there is no active transaction.
>>>>
>>>> http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=60035
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please help me? I am really stuck.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ryan
>>>>
>>>>
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