What is the replacement of EJB SessionContext object in spring boot?

Question

I am migrating an EJB project to Spring boot project. I have successfully replaced other annotations to the spring annotation, but havving problem with SessionContext object. My legacy code is bellow

@Resource
SessionContext sessionContext;
.....
if (some condition) {
    sessionContext.setRollbackOnly();
    return false;
}

For this code i am getting the following error

A component required a bean of type 'javax.ejb.SessionContext' that could not be found.


Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 'javax.ejb.SessionContext' in your configuration.

Answer 1

I think you'll have to use a few different functionalities.

setRollbackOnly()

Most often I have seen Session Context used for Rollbacks. In Spring, you can replace this with:

TransactionAspectSupport.currentTransactionStatus().setRollbackOnly();

or annotate class with

@Transactional(rollbackFor = MyException.class) 

so you can throw your exception from class to cause rollback.

getBusinessObject()

The second most commonly used feature is method to load a business object so that I can, for example, create a new transaction within a same bean. In this case you can use Self-inject:

@Lazy private final AccountService self;

and annote method with @Transactional. This, of course, solves any other cases where you need to use the power of a proxy object.

Other functionality is provided by other classes in Spring, but I think that these two are the most commonly used in the Java EE world and when migrating, one will look to replace them in Spring.