How far does the spring framework go with transaction handling? My reading of the book "Spring In Action" suggestions with its examples that you create DAO methods that don't worry about Session and Transaction management fairly simply by setting up a session factory and transaction template in XML and then wiring them into your DAO. SpringSource.org's documentation, on the other hand, suggests that need tons of XML and/or annotation to make this happen.

What is the truth here, what is the simplest way I can take code along the lines of

get session from sessionfactory
open transaction
preform database actions
commit transaction with error handling

and make it just

preform database actions

reducing the amount of boiler plate transactional code that I have across my methods to a minimum?

hibernate spring transactions dao
Edit
Report