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@Transactional on a private method: what actually happens?
Tests whether you know proxy-based AOP can only intercept calls that go through the proxy's public/protected method dispatch -- a private method can't be overridden by a subclass proxy (or exposed by a JDK dynamic proxy interface), so the annotation is silently ignored.
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