Dependency Injection · interview question
In the context of Spring Boot, what is a potential downside of self-invocation in transaction management?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer
B. It may bypass transactional proxies.
Why
Self-invocation bypasses the proxy that Spring uses to manage transactions, meaning that any transactional annotations on the invoked method will be ignored, leading to potential transactional issues.
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