advancedPropagation & Isolation in Spring

Why doesn't setting isolation = SERIALIZABLE on a REQUIRED method that joins an existing transaction do anything?

Isolation level is fixed when the physical transaction actually begins; a method joining an already-open transaction via REQUIRED doesn't start a new physical transaction, so its isolation annotation is ignored.

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