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What is @Transactional and how does Spring manage transactions?

Tests whether you know @Transactional works via an AOP proxy that wraps the method call to begin a transaction before and commit/rollback after, based on the PlatformTransactionManager -- and that this proxy-based mechanism is exactly why self-invocation bypasses it.

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