Spring Transaction Management Explained

The Spring framework provides developers with a powerful and flexible transaction management mechanism. Whether it’s a complex distributed system or a simple monolithic application, Spring’s transaction abstraction layer allows us to control transaction behavior in a unified and concise way. This article will start with why to use Spring transactions, and then deeply explore its core configuration, working principles, key attributes, and common pitfalls and best practices. Part I: Why Choose Spring’s Transaction Model? In traditional JDBC operations, we need to manually handle the acquisition, commit (commit), and rollback (rollback) of Connection objects, which is tedious and error-prone. Although JTA (Java Transaction API) provides the capability for cross-resource transactions, its API is relatively complex. ...

November 19, 2025 · 6 min · Xiaobin