[[transaction]]
= Transaction Management

Comprehensive transaction support is among the most compelling reasons to use the Spring
Framework. The Spring Framework provides a consistent abstraction for transaction
management that delivers the following benefits:

* A consistent programming model across different transaction APIs, such as Java
  Transaction API (JTA), JDBC, Hibernate, and the Java Persistence API (JPA).
* Support for <<transaction-declarative, declarative transaction management>>.
* A simpler API for <<transaction-programmatic, programmatic>> transaction management
  than complex transaction APIs, such as JTA.
* Excellent integration with Spring's data access abstractions.

The following sections describe the Spring Framework's transaction features and
technologies:

* <<transaction-motivation, Advantages of the Spring Framework's transaction support
  model>> describes why you would use the Spring Framework's transaction abstraction
  instead of EJB Container-Managed Transactions (CMT) or choosing to drive local
  transactions through a proprietary API, such as Hibernate.
* <<transaction-strategies, Understanding the Spring Framework transaction abstraction>>
  outlines the core classes and describes how to configure and obtain `DataSource`
  instances from a variety of sources.
* <<tx-resource-synchronization, Synchronizing resources with transactions>> describes
  how the application code ensures that resources are created, reused, and cleaned up
  properly.
* <<transaction-declarative, Declarative transaction management>> describes support for
  declarative transaction management.
* <<transaction-programmatic, Programmatic transaction management>> covers support for
  programmatic (that is, explicitly coded) transaction management.
* <<transaction-event, Transaction bound event>> describes how you could use application
  events within a transaction.

The chapter also includes discussions of best practices,
<<transaction-application-server-integration, application server integration>>,
and <<transaction-solutions-to-common-problems, solutions to common problems>>.