Disable Transactions for Hibernate calling Stored Procedures

Question

For our web application, all DB access is performed via stored procedures. This design decision is set in stone and there is no way I can change it.

Additionally, all transaction handling is done within the stored procedures. The Java layer must not use transactions.

I can easily accomplish this using plain JDBC. But I’d prefer to use Hibernate for its ORM and caching features.

Calling stored procedures with Hibernate is easy:

final Session session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
final Query query = session.createSQLQuery("EXEC dbo.SP_ProductSearch :searchStr").addEntity(Product.class).setString("searchStr", "ap");
return query.list();

But when I run a DB profile, I see the following.

SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS ON
EXEC dbo.SP_ProductSearch  N'ap'
IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 COMMIT TRAN
IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 COMMIT TRAN
SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS OFF

Is there anyway I can disable the 4x transaction statements?

My technology stack is as follows.

• Spring 3.1.2
• Hibernate 4.1.8
• jTDS (JDBC driver) 1.2.5
• MS SQL Server 10.x

Many thanks in advance... Adam.

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@ctapobep - this is how it is done using plain JDBC.

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;


public class PlainJdbcTest
{
    private static final String USERNAME = "sa";
    private static final String PASSWORD = "password";
    private static final String URL = "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://myserver:1433;DatabaseName=testDatabase;prepareSQL=0";
    private static final String QUERY = " EXEC dbo.SP_ProductSearch ?";
    private static final String DRIVER = "net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver";


    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        Class.forName(DRIVER).newInstance();

        final Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(URL, USERNAME, PASSWORD);
        final PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement(QUERY);
        statement.setString(1, "ba");
        final ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery();

        while(resultSet.next())
        {
            final int id = resultSet.getInt(1);
            final String desc = resultSet.getString(2);
            System.out.print(id + " / " + desc);
        }

        if(resultSet != null) resultSet.close();
        if(statement != null) statement.close();
        if(connection != null) connection.close();
    }
}

And this is what is shown in the profile - so works perfectly!

EXEC dbo.SP_ProductSearch  N'ba'

Answer 1

I haven't discovered any way to prevent Hibernate from using transactions, so as a work-around I've switched to MyBatis which works perfectly.

http://www.mybatis.org/spring/index.html

Answer 2

How are you calling your hibernate code (executing stored procedure)? Is it called through Spring Service class having @Transactional annotation?