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2008-11-23 00:40:30,612 [main] INFO  org.hibernate.transaction.TransactionFactoryFactory - Transaction strategy: org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SpringTransactionFactory
2008-11-23 00:40:30,612 [main] INFO  org.hibernate.transaction.TransactionManagerLookupFactory - No TransactionManagerLookup configured (in JTA environment, use of read-write or transactional second-level cache is not recommended)
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2008-11-23 00:40:30,690 [main] INFO  org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl - building session factory
2008-11-23 00:40:31,018 [main] INFO  org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory - Not binding factory to JNDI, no JNDI name configured
2008-11-23 00:40:31,049 [main] INFO  org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager - Using DataSource [org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource@19977bd] of Hibernate SessionFactory for HibernateTransactionManager
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java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Hibernate Session bound to thread, and configuration does not allow creation of non-transactional one here
        at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionFactoryUtils.doGetSession(SessionFactoryUtils.java:352)
        at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionFactoryUtils.getSession(SessionFactoryUtils.java:202)
        at com.project.service.data.GeoIpHibernateDAO.locate(GeoIpHibernateDAO.java:37)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:310)
        at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:198)
        at $Proxy17.locate(Unknown Source)
        at com.project.service.servlet.LocaterServlet.doPost(LocaterServlet.java:40)
        at com.project.service.servlet.LocaterServlet.doGet(LocaterServlet.java:29)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:263)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:584)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

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<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
      <property name="annotatedClasses">
         <list>
            <value>com.project.service.data.Country</value>
            <value>com.project.service.data.Language</value>
            <value>com.project.service.data.User</value>
            <value>com.project.service.data.Location</value>
            <value>com.project.service.data.GeoIp</value>
         </list>
      </property>
      <property name="hibernateProperties">
         <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
         </props>
    </property>
    <property name="dataSource">
       <ref bean="dataSource"/>
    </property>
  </bean>

   <bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
      <property name="sessionFactory">
         <ref local="sessionFactory"/>
      </property>
   </bean>
...
<!-- geo ip service -->
 
  <bean id="geoIpDAOBeanTarget" class="com.project.service.data.GeoIpHibernateDAO">
    <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
  </bean>

  <bean id="geoIpDAOBean" class="org.springframework.transaction.interceptor.TransactionProxyFactoryBean">
    <property name="transactionManager" ref="txManager" />
    <property name="target" ref="geoIpDAOBeanTarget" />
    <property name="transactionAttributes">
      <props>
        <prop key="locateIp">PROPAGATION_REQUIRED</prop>
      </props>
    </property>
  </bean>
...

...
      try {
         WebApplicationContext context = WebApplicationContextUtils.getWebApplicationContext(this.getServletContext());
         GeoIpDAO geoIpDAO = (GeoIpDAO)context.getBean("geoIpDAOBean");
         geoIp = geoIpDAO.locate(ip);
      } catch(Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
...

...
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
...
@Transactional
public class GeoIpHibernateDAO implements GeoIpDAO {
...

...
<!-- enable the configuration of transactional behavior based on annotations -->
  <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager"/>
...