Creating basic transaction using annotations with Spring for Hibernate.
To process annotation-based transaction configuration a transactionManager bean needs to be created and this will be used by <tx:annotation-driven/> for managing transactions.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd">
<import resource="classpath:org/springbyexample/orm/hibernate3/shared-context.xml"/>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"
p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory" />
<tx:annotation-driven/>
<bean id="personDao"
class="org.springbyexample.orm.hibernate3.dao.PersonDaoImpl"
p:sessionFactory-ref="sessionFactory" />
</beans>