Comprehensive transaction support is among the most compelling reasons to use the Spring Framework. The Spring Framework provides a consistent abstraction for transaction management that delivers the following benefits:
Consistent programming model across different transaction APIs such as Java Transaction API (JTA), JDBC, Hibernate, Java Persistence API (JPA), and Java Data Objects (JDO).
Support for declarative transaction management.
Simpler API for programmatic transaction management than complex transaction APIs such as JTA.
Excellent integration with Spring's data access abstractions.
The following sections describe the Spring Framework's transaction value-adds and technologies. (The chapter also includes discussions of best practices, application server integration, and solutions to common problems.)
Advantages of the Spring Framework's transaction support model describes why you would use the Spring Framework's transaction abstraction instead of EJB Container-Managed Transactions (CMT) or choosing to drive local transactions through a proprietary API such as Hibernate.
Understanding the Spring
Framework transaction abstraction outlines the core classes and
describes how to configure and obtain
DataSource instances from a variety of
sources.
Synchronizing resources with transactions describes how the application code ensures that resources are created, reused, and cleaned up properly.
Declarative transaction management describes support for declarative transaction management.
Programmatic transaction management covers support for programmatic (that is, explicitly coded) transaction management.