Incorrect description for class-level @Transactional with AspectJ [SPR-16552]

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Sviatoslav Hryb opened SPR-16552 and commented

Section Data Access, paragraph 1.5.9. Using @Transactional with AspectJ contains description of using a @Transactional annotation.
But the aforementioned description for the class's annotation is not completely right or clear. There is written: The @Transactional annotation on a class specifies the default transaction semantics for the execution of *any* method in the class. But I've checked the aspect org.springframework.transaction.aspectj.AnnotationTransactionAspect and seen that it is not quite true because it is true only for public methods of the class.
So we should write this: The @Transactional annotation on a class specifies the default transaction semantics for the execution of *any public* method in the class. or something like that.

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Affects: 4.3.14, 5.0.4

Reference URL: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/5.0.4.RELEASE/spring-framework-reference/data-access.html#transaction-declarative-aspectj

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Issue Links:

• Incorrect pointcut expressions in reference documentation [SPR-16549] #21092 Incorrect pointcut expressions in reference documentation

Referenced from: commits ff818d5, f789895

Backported to: 4.3.15