Spring: @Transactional on a private or final method is ignored without error

A JDK proxy can only intercept interface methods; a CGLIB proxy subclasses your bean and can only override what is visible and non-final. Anything it cannot override runs unproxied, and the annotation becomes a comment.

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Published 2026-08-25