Spring @Transactional boundaries

Question

I'm using @Transactional in my service layer. If I annotate two updating service methods with @Transactional (using default settings) and a controller method is calling both of these methods to perform its action, do both service methods use the same transaction?

It appears that they do not, and I am looking for confirmation of this. It would appear to me that to get both methods to use the same transaction I would need to write a third method in the service, annotate it with @Transactional, and call the original two methods from there.

Answer 1

everything you said is correct, including how to get around the issue. It might be a good time to implement a Facade service that coordinates all your other services. That way the the used services will participate in the transactions of the Facade service.