Avoid transaction listener execution without transaction management setup

Closes gh-32319

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/event/ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter.java

@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ public class ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter implements GenericApplicationListe
 	@Nullable
 	private final String condition;
 
+	private final boolean defaultExecution;
+
 	private final int order;
 
 	@Nullable
@@ -119,6 +121,7 @@ public class ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter implements GenericApplicationListe
 		EventListener ann = AnnotatedElementUtils.findMergedAnnotation(this.targetMethod, EventListener.class);
 		this.declaredEventTypes = resolveDeclaredEventTypes(method, ann);
 		this.condition = (ann != null ? ann.condition() : null);
+		this.defaultExecution = (ann == null || ann.defaultExecution());
 		this.order = resolveOrder(this.targetMethod);
 		String id = (ann != null ? ann.id() : "");
 		this.listenerId = (!id.isEmpty() ? id : null);
@@ -166,7 +169,9 @@ public class ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter implements GenericApplicationListe
 
 	@Override
 	public void onApplicationEvent(ApplicationEvent event) {
-		processEvent(event);
+		if (isDefaultExecution()) {
+			processEvent(event);
+		}
 	}
 
 	@Override
@@ -227,6 +232,16 @@ public class ApplicationListenerMethodAdapter implements GenericApplicationListe
 		return ClassUtils.getQualifiedMethodName(method) + sj;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Return whether default execution is applicable for the target listener.
+	 * @since 6.2
+	 * @see #onApplicationEvent
+	 * @see EventListener#defaultExecution()
+	 */
+	protected boolean isDefaultExecution() {
+		return this.defaultExecution;
+	}
+
 
 	/**
 	 * Process the specified {@link ApplicationEvent}, checking if the condition

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/event/EventListener.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2022 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2024 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ public @interface EventListener {
 	 */
 	String condition() default "";
 
+	/**
+	 * Whether the event should be handled by default, without any special
+	 * pre-conditions such as an active transaction. Declared here for overriding
+	 * in composed annotations such as {@code TransactionalEventListener}.
+	 * @since 6.2
+	 */
+	boolean defaultExecution() default true;
+
 	/**
 	 * An optional identifier for the listener, defaulting to the fully-qualified
 	 * signature of the declaring method (e.g. "mypackage.MyClass.myMethod()").