What transaction manager to use? (JPA, Spring)

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I'm developing a web application based on JPA + Hibernate, Spring and Wicket. I was wondering what's the best way of implementing transactions in my code? What transaction manager should I use? Should it be org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager, ororg.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager or something else? I'd like to use Spring for managing my transactions. java spring jpa transactions share|improve this question edited Oct 7 '10 at 10:16 Sean Patrick Floyd 90.3k16120249 asked Oct 7 '10 at 10:03 John Manak 1,61352661

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nanda is right, you can only use JpaTransactionManager. The Transaction Manager abstraction we are talking about here is Spring's PlatformTransactionManager interface, and JPATransactionManager is the only implementation of that interface that understands JPA. You should read the chapter Transaction Management from the Spring reference to better understand this topic. share|improve this answer answered Oct 7 '10 at 10:30 Sean Patrick Floyd 90.3k16120249

ok, thanks a lot guys! –  John Manak Oct 7 '10 at 10:45 +1 for your for completeness and +1 for nanda too to be fair :) –  Pascal Thivent Oct 7 '10 at 11:12

up vote4down vote	org.springframework.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager My preference is to use this with annotation: <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="myTxManager" /> share|improve this answer answered Oct 7 '10 at 10:05 nanda 10.5k42862