Use the correct PlatformTransactionManager implementation based on your choice of transactional technologies and requirements. Used properly, the Spring Framework merely provides a straightforward and portable abstraction. If you use global transactions, you must use the org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager class (or an application server-specific subclass of it) for all your transactional operations. Otherwise, the transaction infrastructure tries to perform local transactions on such resources as container DataSource instances. Such local transactions do not make sense, and a good application server treats them as errors.