How could I use Spring's TransactionInterceptor with JPA? - spring

Question

I have an existing project using Spring 3 and Hibernate 3. I have the following code in order to "safe-guard" the database consistency. If I'm going to convert the project into JPA, how could I resolve the transactionManager property inside the transactionInterceptor bean since JPA using persistence.xml and doesn't make use of dataSource and sessionFactory?
<bean id="transactionInterceptor"
class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor">
<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
<property name="transactionAttributes">
<props>
<prop key="save">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

Answer 1

Try using a configuration similar to the below xml snippet. This has been tested with Hibernate 4, but I would expect it to work with version 3 as well.
<!-- EntityManagerFactory configuration that doesn't need a persistence.xml -->
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
p:dataSource-ref="dataSource"
p:packagesToScan="${jpa.entity.packages}">
<property name="jpaVendorAdapter">
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaVendorAdapter"
p:showSql="${hibernate.show_sql}"/>
</property>
<property name="jpaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">${hibernate.format_sql}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager">
<property name="entityManagerFactory" ref="entityManagerFactory"/>
</bean>
<!-- Scans for classes/methods with #Transactional annotation to apply the
transaction management aspect (TransactionInterceptor) on them. -->
<tx:annotation-driven/>