How can I simulate the ending of a transaction using JUnit with Spring and Hibernate to isolate a LazyInitializationException?

AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests is nothing more than a convenience for tests that want to do stuff inside a transaction. There's no reason why you can't take a more manual approach.

I've had success doing this in the past by getting access to the hiberate session and doing a manual .flush(); and .evict().

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