TransactionRequiredException with WeblogicJtaTransactionManager - spring

Question

I am trying to work with distributed transactions in my application. For this purpose I have configured WeblogicJtaTransactionManager (provided by spring)to manage my distributed transaction. But its seems transactions are not starting. While running update query the get the following exception :
Executing an update/delete query; nested exception is
javax.persistence.TransactionRequiredException: Executing an update/delete query
My application context :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.jasypt.org/schema/encryption http://www.jasypt.org/schema/encryption/jasypt-spring31-encryption-1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
<!-- <tx:jta-transaction-manager /> -->
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" proxy-target-class="true"/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.myapp">
<context:exclude-filter type="regex" expression="com.myapp.controllers"/>
</context:component-scan>
<jee:jndi-lookup jndi-name="jdbc/myDataSource" id="dataSource"/>
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="jtaDataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter" />
</property>
<property name="jpaDialect">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect" />
</property>
<property name="packagesToScan" value="com.myapp.domain" />
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="javax.persistence.sharedCache.mode">NONE</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${app.db.dailect}</prop>
<prop key="initialSize">${app.db.minpoolsize}</prop>
<prop key="maxActive">${app.db.maxpoolsize}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.max_fetch_depth">0</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.query.substitutions">true=1, false=0</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">false</prop>
<prop key="javax.persistence.query.timeout">600000</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jta.JtaTransactionFactory</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform">org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.WeblogicJtaPlatform</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory" />
<property name="jpaDialect">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect" />
</property>
</bean> -->
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.WebLogicJtaTransactionManager" >
<property name="transactionManagerName" value="javax.transaction.TransactionManager"/>
</bean>
<jpa:repositories base-package="com.myapp.repos" factory-class="com.myapp.repos.BaseRepositoryFactoryBean"
entity-manager-factory-ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

It is the problem with your datasource. You are using ComboPooledDataSource which is not managed by weblogic.