I used the factory approach too. See my post from 9/5/2007 "yet another way to add spring to restlets, any opinions?"
On 9/14/07, Adam Taft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Interesting. I'm using lookup-method in production without any problems. > > But, there are no transactions and no other proxies so I guess we got > > lucky. Do the clashes only occur within the class or does it cause > > problems everywhere? In other words, am I safe if the resource class is > > not transactional, but is uses a service class that is? > > I believe it might be limited if you're trying to make the methods in > the Resource class itself transactional, but I can't remember exactly. > It might have happened in your scenario too. > > The problem for me was that transactions which should have rolled back > didn't. This is really sneaky, because I had to crank up the spring > logging to 'debug' in order to see the transaction output. Then, I had > to throw an exception in one of my DAO methods and watch to see if the > transaction rolled back. > > What solved it was by not using lookup-method and instead using a > different factory approach to creating Resources. This allowed me to > remove the CGLib dependency out of my configuration, which I personally > like (the fewer dependencies that rely on "magic" the better, in my mind). > > Adam >

