<p>A couple of month ago, we start publishing polls on <a href="http://www.springframework.org">www.springframework.org</a> asking people to provide their feedback about Spring, some of its features and how they are using those features. The first question I posted was whether or not people were checking required dependencies and if so, what mechanisms they used. I quickly followed up on this question asking the community what transaction management strategy it used.</p>
<p>To my delight when I first checked the results, back in March, a lot of people told us by voting in the first poll that they were using the @Required annotation. The second poll–on transaction management, quickly showed that a lot of people were using the @Transactional annotation. Below you can find some of the results of the poll about checking required dependencies. Together with the poll on transaction management (about 30% of all respondents are using the @Transactional annotation to demarcate transaction boundaries) they consistently…