Spring MVC JdbcTemplate Transactional Annotation does not work - spring

Question

I have two insert operation in one http post request. something like
#Service
public class StudentService {
#Transactional(rollbackFor = Exception.class, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public int create(final Student student) {
// insert into table 1
// insert into table 2 using id return from insert 1, but something BAD happen here
}
}
so, I added #Transactional at method level as shown above.
In order to make it work, I added this tx:annotation-driven
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" proxy-target-class="true"/>
so my app-servlet.xml looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/res/**" location="/res/" />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.app" />
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" name="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://xxx:3306/AppDb" />
<property name="username" value="username" />
<property name="password" value="password" />
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" proxy-target-class="true"/>
</beans>
the component-scan will basically scan all class include controller, service, model, viewmodel, helper class etc.
If I remove the tx:annotation-driven, the #transactional won't work.
But once I add this tx:annotation-driven, some error starts to appear, like
Error creating bean with name 'homeController': Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private com.app.service.StudentService com.app.controller.HomeController.studentRepository; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'studentService' defined in file [/path/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/MathSchool/WEB-INF/classes/com/app/service/StudentService.class]: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/springframework/cglib/transform/impl/MemorySafeUndeclaredThrowableStrategy
How can I make this #transactional work.

Answer 1

Thanks to #Jens
My project using spring 4.1.6 and spring security 3.2.7
According to this documentation Migrating from Spring Security 3.x to 4.x (XML Configuration)
Spring Security 4 now requires Spring 4 (Spring 4.0 or 4.1, I guess). Conveniently, Spring Security
3.2.x works with Spring 3.2.x and Spring 4 (Spring 4.0 Only, I guess).
The only thing I did is downgrade Spring 4.1 to Spring 4.0