org.hibernate.HibernateException: getCriteriaBuilder is not valid without active transaction

CriteriaBuilder builder = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().getCriteriaBuilder();

@Repository("personDao")
public class PersonDAOImpl implements PersonDAO {

    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    @Override
    public void save(Person person) {
        sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().saveOrUpdate(person);
    }

    @Override
    public void delete(Person person) {
        sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().delete(person);
    }

    @Override
    public List<Person> listPersons() {
        CriteriaBuilder builder = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().getCriteriaBuilder();
        CriteriaQuery<Person> criteria = builder.createQuery(Person.class);
        Root<Person> employeeRoot=criteria.from(Person.class);
        criteria.select(employeeRoot);
        return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery(criteria).getResultList();
    }
}

@Service
@Transactional
public class PersonServiceImpl implements PersonService {

    @Autowired
    private PersonDAO personDao;

     @Override
     public void save(Person person) {
         personDao.save(person);
     }

     @Override
     public void delete(Person person) {
         personDao.delete(person);
     }

     @Override
     public List<Person> listPersons() {
         return personDao.listPersons();
     }

     @Override
     public Person getById(Integer id) {
         return personDao.getById(id);
     }

}

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/persons")
public class PersonController {
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PersonController.class);

    @Autowired
    private PersonService personService;

    @RequestMapping(value = {"/", "/all", "/list"}, method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String list(Model model) {
        logger.info("Se ingresa al método de listar personas");
        List<Person> persons = personService.listPersons();
        logger.info("listando personas, hay un total de " + persons.size());
        model.addAttribute("persons", persons.size());
        return "persons";
    }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd">

<!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets
    and Filters -->
<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<!-- Processes application requests -->
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="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-4.3.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-4.3.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.3.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.3.xsd">

<!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing
    infrastructure -->

<!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
<annotation-driven />

<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving
    up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

<!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by @Controllers to .jsp resources
    in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
<beans:bean
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
    <beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</beans:bean>

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

<!-- Datasource -->
<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:hibernate.properties" />

<beans:bean
    class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"
    id="dataSource">
    <beans:property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driver}" />
    <beans:property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
    <beans:property name="username" value="${jdbc.user}" />
    <beans:property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
</beans:bean>

<!--SessionFactory -->
<beans:bean id="hibernateSessionFactory"
    class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <beans:property name="dataSource" value="#{dataSource}" />
    <beans:property name="packagesToScan" value="com.edwin.spring.model" />
    <beans:property name="hibernateProperties">
        <beans:props>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.connection.pool_size">1</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory
            </beans:prop>
            <!--<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create-drop</prop> -->
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">true</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer">true</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">true</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.enable_lazy_load_no_trans">true</beans:prop>
            <beans:prop key="hibernate.transaction.flush_before_completion">true</beans:prop>
        </beans:props>
    </beans:property>
</beans:bean>

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>

<beans:bean class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.HibernateTransactionManager"
    id="transactionManager">
    <beans:property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernateSessionFactory"/>
</beans:bean>

</beans:beans>

#DB properties:
jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/spring
jdbc.user=root
jdbc.password=1234

#Hibernate Configuration:
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
hibernate.show_sql=true
hibernate.format_sql=true