Using tx:annotation-driven prevents Autowiring a bean - spring

Question

I'm developing a module on an OSGi application, using Spring MVC and Virgo Webserver.
On my module I have a Controller, that access a Manager, which has a list of handlers that are responsible for handling report generation.
Everything was doing fine until I had to call a transactional method from an external service. Since none of my classes were transactional I had to add the references to the transation manager and annotation-driven. Then, my Manager stopped being notified.
I understand that when using annotation-driven all my beans must implement a public interface in order for the proxying mechanism to work. And as far as I know, all the classes are (one of them wasn't, but then I changed it).
My configuration files are:
bundle-context.xml:
<?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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">
<context:annotation-config />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
<bean id="reportManager" class="reportmodule.manager.impl.ReportManagerImpl"/>
<bean id="mvpepReportHandler" class="reportmodule.manager.impl.MVPEPReportHandler"/>
<bean id="reportConfigDao" class="reportmodule.repository.impl.ReportConfigurationHibernateDAOImpl"/>
<bean id="oSGIChangeReportHandler" class="reportmodule.osgi.impl.OSGIChangeReportHandlerImpl"/>
<bean id="reportController"
class="reportmodule.controller.impl.ReportControllerImpl"/>
<bean id="reportControllerHandlerMapping"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<value>/module/reportController/**=reportController</value>
</property>
<property name="alwaysUseFullPath" value="true"></property>
</bean>
</beans>
and my bundle-osgi.xml is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi"
xmlns:osgi-compendium="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi-compendium"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi
http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi-compendium
http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi-compendium/spring-osgi-compendium-1.2.xsd">
<osgi:reference id="transactionManager" interface="org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager" />
<osgi:reference id="sessionFactory" interface="org.hibernate.SessionFactory" />
<osgi:reference id="smaCoreUtilService" interface="core.util.service.SmaCoreUtilService" />
<osgi:service ref="reportControllerHandlerMapping"
interface="org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerMapping"
context-class-loader="service-provider"
auto-export="interfaces"/>
<osgi:service interface="reportmodule.api.manager.ReportManager" ref="reportManager" auto-export="interfaces"/>
<osgi:service interface="reportmodule.api.manager.ReportHandler" ref="mvpepReportHandler" auto-export="interfaces"/>
<osgi:service interface="reportmodule.repository.ReportConfigurationDAO" ref="reportConfigDao" auto-export="interfaces"/>
<osgi:service interface="reportmodule.osgi.OSGIChangeReportHandler" ref="oSGIChangeReportHandler" auto-export="interfaces"/>
<osgi:list cardinality="0..N" id="reportHandler" interface="reportmodule.api.manager.ReportHandler" greedy-proxying="true">
<osgi:listener ref="oSGIChangeReportHandler" bind-method="register" unbind-method="unregister"/>
</osgi:list>
</beans>
So, after all the services are being published the oSGIChangeReportHandler.register is called (I'm able to debbug it):
#Service(value="oSGIChangeReportHandler")
public class OSGIChangeReportHandlerImpl implements OSGIChangeReportHandler {
private ReportManager reportManager;
/**
* #param reportManager the reportManager to set
*/
#Autowired
public void setReportManager(ReportManager reportManager) {
this.reportManager = reportManager;
}
#SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public void register(ReportHandler reportHandler, Map properties) {
reportManager.addReportHandler(reportHandler);
}
#SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public void unregister(ReportHandler reportHandler, Map properties) {
reportManager.removeReportHandler(reportHandler);
}
}
And although the debugger shows Proxies for both the reportManager and reportHandler on the register method, the debugger does not halts on the ReportManagerImpl.addReportHandler method:
#Service(value="reportManager")
#Transactional(propagation = Propagation.MANDATORY, rollbackFor = Exception.class)
public class ReportManagerImpl implements ReportManager {
private ReportConfigurationDAO reportConfigurationDAO;
private ArrayList<ReportHandler> reportHandlers = new ArrayList<ReportHandler>();
/**
* #param reportConfigurationDAO the reportConfigurationDAO to set
*/
#Autowired
public void setReportConfigurationDAO(ReportConfigurationDAO reportConfigurationDAO) {
this.reportConfigurationDAO = reportConfigurationDAO;
}
#Override
#Transactional
public InputStream gerarRelatorio(ReportRequest repoReq) throws NegocioException {
// Generates the report...
}
/* (non-Javadoc)
* #see reportmodule.api.manager.ReportManager#addReportHandler(reportmodule.api.manager.ReportHandler)
*/
#Override
public void addReportHandler(ReportHandler handler) {
if (handler != null) {
this.reportHandlers.add(handler);
}
}
/* (non-Javadoc)
* #see reportmodule.api.manager.ReportManager#removeReportHandler(reportmodule.api.manager.ReportHandler)
*/
#Override
public void removeReportHandler(ReportHandler handler) {
if (handler != null) {
this.reportHandlers.remove(handler);
}
}
}
I must stress that when I remove the tx:annotation-driven tag from the bundle-context.xml file, everything works fine (the handler is properly added to the list during startup).
So, what am I missing here?

Answer 1

Problem solved!
As you can see on my code above, I was defining the beans both via XML and Annotation, thus every bean was duplicated in runtime. Then, when I added the tx:annotation-driven tag the application begun intercepting the wrong bean. It was indeed notifying a bean, but an orphan bean.

Answer 2

Here´s an example working with tx. Look this line:
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
and this on schemaLocation:
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
Source:
http://www.springbyexample.org/examples/hibernate-transaction-annotation-config.html