Can I use Hibernate with JTA?

java spring hibernate transactions jta
user3528733 picture user3528733 · Jan 31, 2015 · Viewed 11.3k times · Source

If JTA is an API, can I use Hibernate as an implementation of JTA?

I have an application with Spring and Hibernate and I wonder which framework should be responsible for transactions, Spring or Hibernate?

Answer

Vlad Mihalcea picture Vlad Mihalcea · Feb 1, 2015

Hibernate is not an implementation of JTA. Hibernate is a JPA implementation.

JTA is an enterprise transaction spec, that's implemented by Java EE providers or stand-along transaction managers (e.g. Bitronix).

Hibernate offers a Transaction API abstraction because ORM tools employ a transactional write-behind Persistence Context.

Spring offers a transaction management abstraction, which allows you to switch from RESOURCE_LOCAL to JTA transactions with just some trivial configuration changes.

Spring manages to integrate on top of Hibernate/JPA Transaction API abstraction too.

If you use Spring, then you should take advantage of its transaction management abstraction, and so you don't have to use the Hibernate/JPA Transaction API.

Because Spring uses AOP, the transaction management is decoupled from your business logic, which would not be the case if you were using the programmatic Hibernate/JPA Transaction API.

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