EJB3 / JPA @Transactional

Question

Is there an EJB or JPA annotiation that is equivalent to Spring's @Transactional ?

Answer 1

The equivalent EJB3 attribute is javax.ejb.TransactionAttribute.

Just like Spring's @Transactional annotation, you can control the transaction 'propagation' by passing a TransactionAttributeType to the TransactionAttribute annotation, like:

@TransactionAttribute(NOT_SUPPORTED)
@Stateful
public class TransactionBean implements Transaction {
...
    @TransactionAttribute(REQUIRES_NEW)
    public void firstMethod() {...}

    @TransactionAttribute(REQUIRED)
    public void secondMethod() {...}

    public void thirdMethod() {...}

    public void fourthMethod() {...}
}

Container managed transactions are described in Part IV of the Java EE 5 Tutorial.