> >> I don't think we need to refer to Hibernate Transactions explicitly. > >> That doesn't mean we don't use transactions now. > > > > well, i think that our Hibernate persistence implementation should > > use Hibernate Transactions explicitly. > > Yeah, that's what the Hibernate docs recommend. It does add a > dependency on the JTA jars though.
>I would have to look into it further, but I don't think you have to use >JTA. Hibernate's built-in Transaction support is meant to allow for >plugging in various transaction strategies, like JTA. >-- Allen This adds another case for using Spring, it's transaction / transaction demarcation capabilities supports JTA , JDBC and etc. At least that way, it's not OR mapper specific (JDO, EJB3, and etc).
