Spring #Transactional not committing records - spring

Question

I use Spring with Hibernate. I am using following configurations. When I try to save through Spring transaction, the record never commits.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
<context:component-scan base-package="com.wpt.controllers,com.wpt.dao" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:default-servlet-handler />
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<bean id="wptDatasource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/wp" />
<property name="username" value="user" />
<property name="password" value="pass" />
</bean>
<bean id="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="wptDatasource" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.wpt.models" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory">
</bean></beans>
MyControllerClass
#Transactional
#RequestMapping(...)
public String saveRecords(#ModelAttribute("orderObj") Order order){
for(Item item : order.getItems()){
itemDAO.save(item);
}
return "saveSuccess";
}
MyDAOClass
public void save(Item item){
session = sf.openSession();
session.save(item);
session.close();
}
The above #Transactional configuration not committing the record. But if I remove #Transactional from spring controller and use Hibernate transaction as below, the record commits.
public void save(Item item){
session = sf.openSession();
Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
session.persist(item);
tx.commit();
session.close();
}
This class commits the record.
I've gone through some forums and it's mentioned that #Transactional will take care of committing records. What mistake I am doing here? Can someone help?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It worked after I have added <tx:annotation-driven /> annotation to my configuration xml & removed hibernate.current_session_context_class from hibernateSessionFactory bean. Given the changes below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.wpt.controllers,com.wpt.dao" />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:default-servlet-handler />
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
<bean id="wptDatasource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/wp" />
<property name="username" value="user" />
<property name="password" value="pass" />
</bean>
<bean id="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="wptDatasource" />
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.wpt.models" />
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
<!-- <prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop> -->
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory">
</bean>
</beans>
Then I have included org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional annotation to all my service methods & removed all transactions from my DAO classes.
public void save(Item item){
//session = sf.openSession();
session.save(item);
//session.close();
}
Thanks all for your help.