001    /*
002     * Copyright 2011 The Kuali Foundation.
003     * 
004     * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     * 
008     * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009     * 
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package org.kuali.kfs.sys.service;
017    
018    import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
019    import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
020    import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
021    import java.lang.annotation.Target;
022    
023    @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
024    @Target( { ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD })
025    /** 
026     * This annotation is effectively a marker.  Beans which access data should 
027     * either be Transactional or not.  To ensure that the developer has considered
028     * this when writing service beans, the public mehtods of the service must be 
029     * annotated as either Transactional or NonTransactional.  If the class is 
030     * annotated, then it is assumed that all of the methods have that annotation
031     * and no method internal to the class should have a Transactional/NonTransactional
032     * annotation.  Since Spring provides the Transactional annotation, it is only
033     * necessary to provide the NonTransactional annotation inside KFS.
034     * 
035     * This annotation has no effect in the application at runtime.  It is only used
036     * by unit tests which seek to enforce/confirm that the preceeding policy is
037     * being applied.
038     * 
039     */
040    public @interface NonTransactional {
041    
042    }