the count sessionFactory.getStatistics().getTransactionCount() is 0 - spring

Question

This question is to improve my understanding of how the transactions are managed within the sessions in spring hibernate. When I print getSessionFactory()getStatistics().getTransactionCount() , it prints '0' when getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().isActive() is 'true'. I am really confused. Kindly clear the same for me .
Following is the piece of code in which I want the transaction to happen:
#Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)
public int insertNewRecord(){
System.out.println(getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().isActive());//gives `true`
System.out.println(getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getStatistics()); //Gives statistics
System.out.println(getSessionFactory().getStatistics().getSessionOpenCount());// Gives 1
System.out.println(getSessionFactory().getStatistics().getTransactionCount());// Gives 0
}
My spring and Hibernate configuration:
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="mappingLocations">
<list><value>classpath:Employee.hbm.xml</value></list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<!-- SQL dialect -->
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect</prop>
<!-- Enable Hibernate's current session context -->
<!-- <prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">org.hibernate.context.internal.ThreadLocalSessionContext</prop> --><!-- org.hibernate.context.internal.ThreadLocalSessionContext -->
<!-- Disable the second-level cache -->
<prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</prop>
<!-- Echo all executed SQL to stdout -->
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
Below is the transaction manager:
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

Answer 1

Well, you might want to try executing that code a few times, since the getTransactionCount() method is documented as:
The number of transactions we know to have completed
So if you started with zero, but then you take a count in the middle of a transaction, the transaction has not completed yet, so the count would still be zero.
You might also want to add a call to isStatisticsEnabled() and print the result, just to double-check that stats are enabled.