Spring: automatic rollback on checked exceptions

You can't do it for application level with @Transactional , but you can :

variant 1 : extend @Transactional annotation and put it as default value for rollbackfor. But set rollbackFor unchecked exceptions only that you need .With this you can control rollbacks only for case that you sure , and avoid copy past of @Transactional(rollbackFor =MyCheckedException.class)

Like:

@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Transactional(rollbackFor=MyCheckedException.class)
public @interface TransactionalWithRollback {
}

And use this annotation instead of standard @Transactional.

variant 2 : you can create extension from AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource and override method determineTransactionAttribute:

protected TransactionAttribute  determineTransactionAttribute(AnnotatedElement ae)
//Determine the transaction attribute for the given method or class.

TransactionAttribute see TransactionAttribute api , there is a method

boolean rollbackOn(Throwable ex) Should we roll back on the given exception?

protected TransactionAttribute determineTransactionAttribute(
    AnnotatedElement ae) {
    return new DelegatingTransactionAttribute(target) {
        @Override
        public boolean rollbackOn(Throwable ex) {
           return (check is exception type as you need for rollback );
       }
};

}

Second approach is not so good as first as you do it really global for transaction manager. Better use custom annotation as you can control it any apply only for methods/classes where you really need it. But if you need it in any case use second variant , it will be your default transnational behavior.

This config solves it:

@Configuration
public class MyProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration extends ProxyTransactionManagementConfiguration {

    @Bean
    @Role(BeanDefinition.ROLE_INFRASTRUCTURE)
    public TransactionAttributeSource transactionAttributeSource() {
        return new AnnotationTransactionAttributeSource() {

            @Nullable
            protected TransactionAttribute determineTransactionAttribute(AnnotatedElement element) {
                TransactionAttribute ta = super.determineTransactionAttribute(element);
                if (ta == null) {
                    return null;
                } else {
                    return new DelegatingTransactionAttribute(ta) {
                        @Override
                        public boolean rollbackOn(Throwable ex) {
                            return super.rollbackOn(ex) || ex instanceof Exception;
                        }
                    };
                }
            }
        };
    }
}