Camunda runs in auto-commit mode even if a transactionManager is defined

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Hi there,
We are using Camunda 7.12.0, Spring Boot 2.2.6 and camunda-bpm-spring-boot-starter 3.4.2.
As database we’re using Oracle 12.1.0.2.0.

We are using the Camunda Spring intgeration for our microservices. Each Microservice has therefore a embedded Camunda Engine running, but the Engines are using the same database.
Most of the Microservices have their own Database so two datasources are configured:

@Configuration
public class DataSourceConfiguration {

    @Bean
    @Primary
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "datasource.offerapplication")
    public DataSource offerApplicationDataSource() {
        return create().build();
    }

    @Bean(name = "camundaBpmDataSource")
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "datasource.camunda")
    public DataSource camundaDataSource() {
        return create().build();
    }
}

using following configuration file:

datasource:
  offerapplication:
    driverClassName: oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver
    platform: oracle
    jdbcUrl: jdbc:oracle:thin:@{databaseserver}
    username: {username}
    password: *******************
  camunda:
    driverClassName: oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver
    platform: oracle
    jdbcUrl: jdbc:oracle:thin:@{databaseserver}
    username: {username}
    password: *******************

According to the documentation https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.13/user-guide/spring-boot-integration/configuration/#defaultdatasourceconfiguration it is required to configure a transactionManager for the Camunda datasource to avoid running in the auto-commit mode, so we changed the DataSourceConfiguration to following:


    @Bean
    @Primary
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "datasource.offerapplication")
    public DataSource offerApplicationDataSource() {
        return create().build();
    }

    @Bean(name = "camundaBpmDataSource")
    @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "datasource.camunda")
    public DataSource camundaDataSource() {
        return create().build();
    }

    @Bean
    @Primary
    public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager() {
        return new JpaTransactionManager();
    }

    @Bean
    public PlatformTransactionManager camundaTransactionManager(@Qualifier("camundaBpmDataSource") DataSource dataSource) {
        return new DataSourceTransactionManager(dataSource);
    }

But Camunda is still running in the auto-commit mode. We also tried to disable the auto-commit mode directly on the datasource, but this has also no effect.

Can someone please help us with this issue?

Thank you very much for your help

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