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What @TransactionalEventListener actually fires on commit, on rollback, and on neither -- plus a write inside AFTER_COMMIT that survives or vanishes depending on your connection pool. Measured in a playground, not quoted from the Javadoc.

4 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

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#java
#patterns
#transactions
#events

Spring and Java mechanics

Spring events that survive a crash

A fire-and-forget @Async listener turns every SMTP hiccup into a lost message. Here is how @TransactionalEventListener plus an event publication table makes it durable — and the four ways that setup silently does nothing.

2 Aug 2026 · 7 min read

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#java
#transactions
#outbox
#events

#transactions

Four phases, and the one that never runs at all

Spring events that survive a crash