In actuality I rewrote the tests and removed the AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests super class and the transactions worked. I also rewrote the the test as an integration test on a tomcat server and confirmed that the transaction managers worked.
I did see the same javadoc comments that you mentioned and found that the order was not important. Also, from the following article that is references in Spring's Transaction documentation: ChainedTransactionManager which is ‘a crude implementation of a transaction manager just links together a list of other transaction managers to implement the transaction synchronization. If the business processing is successful they all commit, and if not they all roll back.” Full article: https://www.javaworld.com/article/2077963/open-source-tools/distributed-transactions-in-spring--with-and-without-xa.html?page=2 -- Sent from: http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/
