<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  <display-name>Alpha v0.02</display-name>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.json</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
        xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
        xsi:schemaLocation="
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

    <context:annotation-config />
    <mvc:annotation-driven />
    <tx:annotation-driven />

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.visitrend" />

    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
    </bean>

     <bean id="dataSource"  class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
        <property name="driverClass" value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
        <property name="jdbcUrl" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres" />
        <property name="user" value="someuser" />
        <property name="password" value="somepasswd" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="configLocation" value="classpath:test.hibernate.cfg.xml" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
      <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>
</beans>

public interface LayerService {
    public void createLayer(Integer layerListID, Layer layer);
}

@Service
public class LayerServiceImpl implements LayerService {

    @Autowired
    public LayerDAO layerDAO;

    @Transactional
    @Override
    public void createLayer(Integer layerListID, Layer layer) {
        layerDAO.createLayer(layerListID, layer);
    }
}

@Controller
public class MainController {

    @Autowired
    private LayerService layerService;

    @RequestMapping(value = "/addLayer.json", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public @ResponseBody
    LayerListSetGroup addLayer(@RequestBody JSONLayerFactory request) {
        layerService.createLayer(request.getListId(), request.buildLayer());
        return layerService.readLayerListSetGroup(llsgID);
    }
}

@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "my.servlet.package")
public class ServletContextConfiguration {
    // this will only find @Transactional annotations on classes in my.servlet.package package
}

@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "my.package.services")
public class ApplicationContextConfiguration {
    // now this will scan your my.package.services package for @Transactional
}

<beans ...
 xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
 xsi:schemaLocation="...
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.2.xsd">
  <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"
   proxy-target-class="true" />
  ..
</beans>