Seam Managed Transactions + Spring + Quartz

[r4j]

I have a problem with making Seam Managed Transactions to work with Spring / Quartz. Whenever Quartz job is executed on a Spring-only defined Bean (with transactional propagation = REQUIRED) I get IllegalArgumentException from "SeamLifecycleUtils#beginTransactionalSeamCall" because there is no Transactional Synchronization active yet.

I have done a bit of debugging and TransactionSynchronisation is initialized AFTER the "AbstractPlatformTransactionManager#doBegin" method is executed. On the other hand - doBegin requires an access to Session object, so we end up with a chicken-egg problem: Spring wants to get a Session in order to create transaction, Seam needs a transaction to return Session.

My configuration of components is as follows:

Spring:

<bean id="springSessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="namingStrategy">
        <bean class="org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy" />
    </property>
    <property name="configLocation" value="hibernate.cfg.xml" />
</bean>

<bean id="seamSessionFactory" class="org.jboss.seam.ioc.spring.SeamManagedSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="sessionName" value="seamDatabase"/>
</bean>

<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
  <property name="sessionFactory" ref="seamSessionFactory" />
</bean>

Seam:

<core:init transaction-management-enabled="true" />

<spring:spring-transaction platform-transaction-manager="#{txManager}"/>

<persistence:managed-hibernate-session name="seamDatabase"
         auto-create="true" session-factory="#{springSessionFactory}" />

Quartz executes a normal Spring bean and it all ends up with:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Seam application context not available and cannot be started.  Seam Managed Persistence Context not available.  Try placing the spring bean call inside of a spring transaction or try making the spring bean a Seam Component using <seam:component/>.
at org.jboss.seam.ioc.spring.SeamLifecycleUtils.beginTransactionalSeamCall(SeamLifecycleUtils.java:44) [jboss-seam-ioc.jar:]
at org.jboss.seam.ioc.spring.SeamManagedSessionFactoryBean$SeamManagedSessionFactoryHandler.getSession(SeamManagedSessionFactoryBean.java:128) [jboss-seam-ioc.jar:]
at org.jboss.seam.ioc.spring.SeamManagedSessionFactoryBean$SeamManagedSessionFactoryHandler.invoke(SeamManagedSessionFactoryBean.java:188) [jboss-seam-ioc.jar:]
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy85.openSession(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor156.invoke(Unknown Source) [:1.7.0_15]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) [:1.7.0_15]
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) [:1.7.0_15]
at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethod(ReflectionUtils.java:191) [org.springframework.core-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar:]
at org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethod(ReflectionUtils.java:176) [org.springframework.core-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar:]
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SessionFactoryUtils.openSession(SessionFactoryUtils.java:114) [org.springframework.orm-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar:]
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager.doBegin(HibernateTransactionManager.java:340) [org.springframework.orm-3.1.3.RELEASE.jar:]

Components versions:

• Seam 2.3
• Spring 3.1.3
• Hibernate 4.2.2

Any hints ?

Thanks in advance!