The point with declarative is that it is nice until it isn't and it breaks on you. I've cleaned up a fair amount of very misguided uses of the @Transactional annotation on several projects where people were using it as some sort of magical incantation on anything that looked like it might be doing anything with a database.
TransactionTemplate has about the same amount of verbosity but it doesn't lie and it gives you explicit control. I consider this more maintainable. Also compile time type checking vs. runtime injection of code has certain advantages. Annotations are very opaque in what they actually cause to happen at run time. One rogue annotation can really ruin your day.
I'm not alone. The Spring people are rolling back a lot of their fondness for annotation based declarative magic in favor of using kotlin based functional DSLs. E.g. the kofu project gets rid of essentially all of them in Spring Boot without really increasing verbosity. There are a lot of benefits. Start up time improves, it's easier to use Graal (no reflection/aop magic), it's easier to debug (just command click the function names, set break points, etc.). And it does exactly what it says.
Currently kofu is labelled as experimental but it's clearly the way to go. No more magical proxies that break in completely non magical and convoluted ways.
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The point with declarative is that it is nice until it isn't and it breaks on you. I've cleaned up a fair amount of very misguided uses of the
@Transactionalannotation on several projects where people were using it as some sort of magical incantation on anything that looked like it might be doing anything with a database.TransactionTemplate has about the same amount of verbosity but it doesn't lie and it gives you explicit control. I consider this more maintainable. Also compile time type checking vs. runtime injection of code has certain advantages. Annotations are very opaque in what they actually cause to happen at run time. One rogue annotation can really ruin your day.
I'm not alone. The Spring people are rolling back a lot of their fondness for annotation based declarative magic in favor of using kotlin based functional DSLs. E.g. the kofu project gets rid of essentially all of them in Spring Boot without really increasing verbosity. There are a lot of benefits. Start up time improves, it's easier to use Graal (no reflection/aop magic), it's easier to debug (just command click the function names, set break points, etc.). And it does exactly what it says.
Currently kofu is labelled as experimental but it's clearly the way to go. No more magical proxies that break in completely non magical and convoluted ways.