Doc: @Transactional is inherited [SPR-5322]

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Eberhard Wolff opened SPR-5322 and commented

Paragraph 9.5.6 "Using @Transactional" says:

The fact that annotations are not inherited means that if you are using class-based proxies (proxy-target-class="true") or the weaving-based aspect (mode="aspectj") then the transaction settings will not be recognised by the proxying/weaving infrastructure and the object will not be wrapped in a transactional proxy (which would be decidedly bad).

This is not true. @Transactional is marked as @Inherited. So a subclass that inherits from a superclass marked as @Transactional is not distinguishable from a class that is marked as@Transaction itself.

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Affects: 1.2 RC1, 1.2 RC2, 1.2 final, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.2.8, 2.0 M1, 2.0 M2, 2.0 M3, 2.0 M4, 2.0 M5, 2.0 RC1, 2.0 RC2, 2.0 RC3, 2.0 RC4, 2.0 final, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 1.2.9, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.1 M1, 2.1 M2, 2.1 M3, 2.1 M4, 2.5 RC1, 2.5 RC2, 2.5 final, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 2.5.5, 2.5.6

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Juergen Hoeller commented

That sentence in the docs isn't worded very clearly. However, the context of that section is using @Transactional on interface methods: Since Java annotations are indeed not inherited from interfaces, the statement is correct in that context.

I've reworded that sentence to make the interface context clearer.

Juergen