Chapter 6: Managing Transactions
Database transactions help you group a set of operations into a single unit of work. All operations succeed, or fail, as a group. Spring's powerful and flexible transaction support is another factor responsible for the framework's success and popularity. Prior to Spring, complex or declarative transactional features typically required a JEE server. Using Aspect-Oriented-Programming (AOP) techniques, Spring helped democratize enterprise-level transactional support, allowing developers to cleanly apply transactional rules to their code whether they were using a full-fledged JEE application server, a lighter weight web container, or even a stand-alone unit test. The important detail is that the transactional rules ...
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