When does your Spring @Transactional attribute apply on CgLib proxies
Testing transactional aspect of your application is not easy as we usually use Springs' transaction rollback on tear down testing approach. Though there are solutions to test aspect oriented logic it's not without a price. More than that - we very much got used relying on easy-to-use Spring @Transaction annotation so that we don't usually take an effort to do it. There is a few standard Spring rules for rollbacking transaction in relation to method resolution: