org.beanlet.transaction
Annotation Type AfterBegin

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value=METHOD)
public @interface AfterBegin

The AfterBegin method notifies a beanlet instance that a new transaction has started, and that the subsequent business methods on the instance will be invoked in the context of the transaction.

Method Constraints

Only one method can be marked with this annotation. The method on which the AfterBegin annotation is applied MUST fulfill all of the following criteria:

• The method MUST NOT have any parameters.
• The method MAY return any type.
• The method MUST NOT throw a checked exception.
• The method on which AfterBegin is applied MAY be public, protected, package private or private.
• The method MUST NOT be static.
• The method MAY be final.

XML Representation

The following xml-fragment shows how to express this annotation in xml. The italic attribute of the 'after-begin' tag is used to identify the element to which this annotation is applied.

<beanlets xmlns="http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet"
          xmlns:tx="http://beanlet.org/schema/transaction"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet http://beanlet.org/schema/beanlet/beanlet_1_0.xsd
                              http://beanlet.org/schema/transaction http://beanlet.org/schema/transaction/beanlet_transaction_1_0.xsd">
  <beanlet name="foo" type="com.acme.Foo">
    <tx:after-begin method="bar"/>
  </beanlet>
</beanlets>

See Also:

TransactionSynchronization