@Transactional and GenericApplicationContext don't work together

Question

I'm using @Transactional and transaction management by annotation (tx:annotation-driven...). I have problem when I'm using GenericApplicationContext to create application context and get some beans from it:

GenericApplicationContext ctx = new GenericApplicationContext();

// Load beans definitions 
XmlBeanDefinitionReader xmlReader = new XmlBeanDefinitionReader(ctx);
xmlReader.loadBeanDefinitions(new ClassPathResource(CONTEXT_PATH));

// Register the datasource 
ctx.getBeanFactory().registerSingleton(CONTEXT_DATASOURCE_BEAN_NAME, dataSource);

// Get the service
ServiceInterface service = (ServiceInterface) ctx.getBean("service");

I've got the instance of ServiceInterface but I want to have the proxy which contains information about transactions.

Could you explain me what I've missed?

Answer 1

There is need to call ctx.refresh() before ctx.getBean(). Then the BeanPostProcessors will be invoked.