EntityManager persist() not saving objects to Oracle - spring

Question

Using Spring, Hibernate and JPA to save employee objects to Oracle 12c. Receive No error when running the SpringDataSiebel "main", but actually not save to database.
<context:component-scan base-package="employee"/>
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:#...."/>
<property name="username" value="username"/>
<property name="password" value="password"/>
</bean>
<bean id="jpaDialect" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect"/>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="jcgPersistence"/>
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="persistenceXmlLocation" value="META-INF/persistence.xml"/>
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter" ref="jpaVendorAdapter"/>
<property name="jpaDialect" ref="jpaDialect"/>
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">validate</prop>
<!--prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</prop-->
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="jpaVendorAdapter" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"></bean>
<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="jpaDialect" ref="jpaDialect"/>
</bean>
public class SpringDataSiebel {
public SpringDataSiebel() {
super();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
//SpringDataSiebel s = new SpringDataSiebel();
try {
ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("META-INF\\spring-config-siebel.xml");
//Fetch the DAO from Spring Bean Factory
EmployeeDao employeeDao = (EmployeeDao) context.getBean("EmployeeDaoImpl");
Employee employee = new Employee("Employee 320");
int id = 330;
employee.setEmployeeId(id);
//Save an employee Object using the configured Data source
employeeDao.save(employee);
System.out.println("Employee Saved with EmployeeId " + employee.getEmployeeId());
//find an object using Primary Key
Employee emp = employeeDao.findByPrimaryKey(employee.getEmployeeId());
System.out.println("Found: " + emp);
Employee emp2 = employeeDao.findByPrimaryKey(1000);
System.out.println("Found: " + emp2);
//Close the ApplicationContext
((ConfigurableApplicationContext) context).close();
} catch (BeansException | SQLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public class EmployeeDaoImpl implements EmployeeDao {
public EmployeeDaoImpl() {
super();
}
#PersistenceContext
private EntityManager entityManager;
//#Override
#Transactional
public void save(Employee employee) {
try {
//if (!entityManager.contains(employee)) {
// persist object - add to entity manager
entityManager.persist(employee);
System.out.println("Saving the employee object...");
//}
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Something went wrong.");
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Output:
Saving the employee object...
Employee Saved with EmployeeId 330
Found: null
Found: null
Process exited with exit code 0.
I expect it finds the object "EmployeeId 330"