001/*
002 * Copyright 2008 The Kuali Foundation
003 * 
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 * 
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 * 
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014 * limitations under the License.
015 */
016package org.kuali.ole.sys.service;
017
018import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
019import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
020import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
021import java.lang.annotation.Target;
022
023@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
024@Target( { ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD })
025/** 
026 * This annotation is effectively a marker.  Beans which access data should 
027 * either be Transactional or not.  To ensure that the developer has considered
028 * this when writing service beans, the public mehtods of the service must be 
029 * annotated as either Transactional or NonTransactional.  If the class is 
030 * annotated, then it is assumed that all of the methods have that annotation
031 * and no method internal to the class should have a Transactional/NonTransactional
032 * annotation.  Since Spring provides the Transactional annotation, it is only
033 * necessary to provide the NonTransactional annotation inside OLE.
034 * 
035 * This annotation has no effect in the application at runtime.  It is only used
036 * by unit tests which seek to enforce/confirm that the preceeding policy is
037 * being applied.
038 * 
039 */
040public @interface NonTransactional {
041
042}