Nested Spring TxProxyTemplate issue - spring

I have the following config.
<bean id="abcManager" parent="TxProxyTemplate">
<property name="target">
<bean class="com.x.y.AbcManagerImpl">
<property name="abcDAO" ref="abcDAO"/>
<property name="xyzManager" ref="xyzManager"/>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="xyzManager" parent="TxProxyTemplate">
<property name="target">
<bean class="com.x.y.XyzManagerImpl">
<property name="abcDAO" ref="abcDAO"/>
<property name="anotherManager" ref="anotherManager"/>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="anotherManager" parent="TxProxyTemplate">
<property name="target">
<bean class="com.x.y.AnotherManagerImpl">
<property name="abcDAO" ref="abcDAO"/>
<property name="oneMoreManager" ref="oneMoreManager"/>
</bean>
</property>
</bean>
What is the issue with the following configuration? will having the same DAO at the different levels cause concurency issues?
We found that we get lots of weblogic connection releases when we have high load.
How is this related to the connection release issue?
We use Hibernate for DAO operations.

First, analyse the logs to see when spring creates and closes transactions.
Set the logger for org.springframework.transaction to DEBUG for this.
Next my guess is you need to examine your #Transactional annotations (which I assume you use on your managers (=services?). Make sure the propagation is set correctly because this might be related to your issue (hard to say without seeing your manager's code of course).

To answer your question directly:
What is the issue with the following configuration? will having the same DAO at the different levels cause concurency issues?
Nothing, and no. I don't see anything wrong with this. Not sure what you mean about 'same DAO' - you don't have the same DAO. You have the same parent, but 3 distinct DAOs.
If you're asking, then, why is weblogic closing your DB connections before your transaction completes, we wouldn't be able to answer that with the information above.

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Flyway Spring JPA2 integration - possible to keep schema validation?

Hy, i have a webapplication where i am trying to integrate JPA2(Hibernate)+Spring+Flyway
I added flyway to my ApplicationContext like this:
<bean id="flyway" class="org.flywaydb.core.Flyway" init-method="migrate">
<property name="baselineOnMigrate" value="true" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
Theoretically this works fine and updates the schema with scripts that i save under db/migration. So far so good.
The one problem that is left for me is that if i change something (e.g. adding a String field to an Entity) the application won't even get this far because Hibernates Schema-Validator will throw something like this: Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Missing column: showCaseField in demo.testEntity. This happens because i have set "hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" to "validate"
Now i have read about Hibernate failing to recognize perfeclty valid schemas in some (rare?) cases and i MAY (or not) reach a point someday where i disable this feature altogether. But as of now i actually like the extra-validation and don't want to turn it off.
Is it possible to integrate Spring and Flyway while still keeping Hibernates-Schema-Validation? I guess this could be a problem, because Flyway probably depends on a DataSource-bean or something and in conclusion requires the applicationContext to be completely initialized, which in turn Hibernate prevents because of the schema mismatch..
Any ideas?
Found the answer now. Basically all you have to do is letting your entityManagerFactory-bean depend on your Flyway bean (there's an attribute for that). Now Flyway (and in turn your dataSource) is initialized first and the Flyway-Scripts are executed before Hibernates schema-validation
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean"
depends-on="flyway"> ....
</bean>
<bean id="flyway" class="org.flywaydb.core.Flyway" init-method="migrate">
<property name="baselineOnMigrate" value="true"/>
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>

Which is the default transaction manager the #Transactional uses?

We have configured multiple transaction managers:
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager1" />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager2" />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager3" />
<bean id="transactionManage1"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory1" />
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager2"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory2" />
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManage3"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory3" />
</bean>
However,I don't see a name of transaction manager specified in #Transactional annotation in a service class. I am wondering which transaction manager will be used? The code is working and it looks like it used the first one - "transactionManager1" by default. Do I miss something?
I am wondering which transaction manager will be used?
The behaviour there is probably undefined, but it's most likely to use whichever <tx:annotation-driven> comes first in the context.
There's no reason you should need to do this. If you need fine-grained control over which tx manager to use, then you need to do it programmatically using something like TransactionTemplate. The #Transactional annotation is a convenience, but isn't as flexible as using the underlying API directly.

How to apply transactions best practice for read operations in Spring MVC using Hibernate?

As it is mentioned in blogs/books (e.g. Java Transactions Design Strategies by Mark Richards), read operations must have the Propagation.SUPPORTS attribute.
In a simple Spring 3.1 MVC project with Hibernate 4.1 the scenario is:
Declarative transaction management using #Transactional
sessionFactory of org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean
Transaction manager of org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager
Service class with #Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)
Function of that Service class that only retrieves a resultset (performs read operation) with #Transactional(propagation=Propagation.SUPPORTS)
Function of read operation retieves the resultset using sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().get()
Of course, when a Controller executes the function of read operation, the exception "No Session found for current thread" is raised because a transaction is not started and a session is not obtained.
Based on the above configuration (while it is best e.g. non-invasive, less code etc) the Propagation.SUPPORTS attribute cannot be used unless a transaction is started before with Propagation.REQUIRED or Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW.
How do we use use Propagation.SUPPORTS for read operations without having to start a transaction e.g. with Propagation.REQUIRED before but still taking advantage the benefits of declarative transaction management?
Thank you in advance.
Coder, here is the configuration:
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager"/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.myapps.service.impl" />
<bean id="txManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${db.driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${db.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${db.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${db.password}" />
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="mappingResources">
<list>
<value>.....</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${db.dialect}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
I disagree with using SUPPORTS for read operations. Use REQUIRED.
A transaction is needed anyway to perform every database operation
Doing several small transactions to read several things at once won't benefit from the first-level cache
There won't be any isolation between all the subsequent reads, meaning that something not visible to the first read might become visible for the second one
you'll get lazy loading exceptions when traversing associations
Transaction is not always required for Propagation.SUPPORTS.
Propagation.SUPPORTS: Support a current transaction, execute non-transactionally if none exists.

best approach for setting hibernate/spring project

I have a project with spring and hibernate in GWT,
I am using below applicationcontext.xml,
I was just looking for some best approach of making this file
like all the annotated classes below i.e entity.user, entity.secretQuestion and many more , they all get called when my application runs even if i don't need them , which i guess makes my application quite slow,
so is it possible that only the class which i am calling is getting load in applicationcontext.xml and if yes then would it be a better approach as well ?
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>com.cricsite.persistence.entity.User</value>
<value>com.cricsite.persistence.entity.SecretQuestion</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id ="ManagerAdmin" class= "com.persistence.MySQLRdbHelper">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
You might be looking for something called "lazy loading"
Please take a look at these threads;
Help needed with Spring/Hibernate Lazy-loading
What is lazy loading in Hibernate?
how does spring allow for lazy-loading?

Spring IntTest is getting "Failed to grow the connection pool" from Atomikos

I have a Spring application that normally runs fine in WebLogic.
I have a set of integration tests that use the Atomikos "Transaction Essentials" framework to provide the standalone transaction manager. I had this working, but I'm now seeing a new problem, but I don't know what I might have changed that would make this happen.
I'm seeing a stack trace beginning like this:
org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not get JDBC Connection; nested exception is com.atomikos.jdbc.AtomikosSQLException: Failed to grow the connection pool
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils.getConnection(DataSourceUtils.java:80)
Here are the relevant bean definitions:
<bean id="atomikosTransactionManager" class="com.atomikos.icatch.jta.UserTransactionManager"
init-method="init" destroy-method="close">
<!-- when close is called, should we force transactions to terminate or not? -->
<property name="forceShutdown">
<value>true</value>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- Also use Atomikos UserTransactionImp, needed to configure Spring -->
<bean id="atomikosUserTransaction" class="com.atomikos.icatch.jta.UserTransactionImp">
<property name="transactionTimeout">
<value>300</value>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- Configure the Spring framework to use JTA transactions from Atomikos -->
<bean id="catalogTransactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
<property name="transactionManager">
<ref bean="atomikosTransactionManager" />
</property>
<property name="userTransaction">
<ref bean="atomikosUserTransaction" />
</property>
</bean>
I also have several like this:
<bean id="appConfigDataSource"
class="com.atomikos.jdbc.AtomikosDataSourceBean"
p:uniqueResourceName="appConfigDataSource"
p:xaDataSourceClassName="oracle.jdbc.xa.client.OracleXADataSource"
p:poolSize="5">
<property name="xaProperties">
<props>
<prop key="user">${ds.appconfig.userName}</prop>
<prop key="password">${ds.appconfig.password}</prop>
<prop key="URL">${ds.appconfig.url}</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
I tried changing the "5" to "50". This makes it run longer, but it still fails with the same error. There's no way that it would even need 5 or even 50 connections. I have a strong feeling that if I changed it to a larger number, it would run even longer, and still fail with the same error.
What might I be missing?
Never mind. It was a simple problem. I forgot that the hostname of my test database changed a while ago, and I forgot to change the property value.

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