Allow Hibernate's Transaction act like JPA's EntityTransaction

hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/engine/transaction/internal/TransactionImpl.java

@@ -158,8 +158,20 @@ public int getTimeout() {
 		return this.transactionCoordinator.getTimeOut();
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	public void markRollbackOnly() {
+		// this is the Hibernate-specific API, whereas #setRollbackOnly is the
+		// JPA-defined API.  In our opinion it is much more user-friendly to
+		// always allow user/integration to indicate that the transaction
+		// should not be allowed to commit.
+		internalGetTransactionDriverControl().markRollbackOnly();
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public void setRollbackOnly() {
+		// Since this is the JPA-defined one, we make sure the txn is active first
+		// so long as compliance (JpaCompliance) has not been defined to disable
+		// that check - making this active more like Hibernate's #markRollbackOnly
 		if ( jpaCompliance.isJpaTransactionComplianceEnabled() ) {
 			if ( !isActive() ) {
 				throw new IllegalStateException(
@@ -169,7 +181,7 @@ public void setRollbackOnly() {
 			}
 		}
 
-		internalGetTransactionDriverControl().markRollbackOnly();
+		markRollbackOnly();
 	}
 
 	@Override

hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/jpa/spi/JpaComplianceImpl.java

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ public JpaComplianceImpl(Map configurationSettings, boolean jpaByDefault) {
 		queryCompliance = ConfigurationHelper.getBoolean(
 				AvailableSettings.JPA_QUERY_COMPLIANCE,
 				configurationSettings,
-				legacyQueryCompliance == null ? jpaByDefault : ConfigurationHelper.toBoolean( legacyQueryCompliance, jpaByDefault )
+				ConfigurationHelper.toBoolean( legacyQueryCompliance, jpaByDefault )
 		);
 		transactionCompliance = ConfigurationHelper.getBoolean(
 				AvailableSettings.JPA_TRANSACTION_COMPLIANCE,

hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/test/jpa/compliance/tck2_2/ClosedFactoryTests.java

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ public void testClosedChecks() {
 				.build();
 
 		try {
-			final SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor factoryBuilder = (SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor) new MetadataSources()
+			final SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor factoryBuilder = (SessionFactoryBuilderImplementor) new MetadataSources( ssr )
 					.buildMetadata()
 					.getSessionFactoryBuilder();
 			final SessionFactory sf = factoryBuilder.build();

hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/test/jpa/compliance/tck2_2/QueryApiTest.java

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import javax.persistence.Table;
 import javax.persistence.Temporal;
 import javax.persistence.TemporalType;
+import javax.persistence.TransactionRequiredException;
 
 import org.hibernate.boot.MetadataSources;
 import org.hibernate.query.spi.QueryImplementor;
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@
 import org.hibernate.testing.junit4.BaseNonConfigCoreFunctionalTestCase;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
 /**
@@ -188,4 +190,21 @@ public void testSetInvalidMaxResults() {
 				}
 		);
 	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testUpdateRequiresTxn() {
+		inSession(
+				session -> {
+					try {
+						assertFalse( session.getTransaction().isActive() );
+						// Query
+						session.createQuery( "update Person set name = 'steve'" ).executeUpdate();
+						fail( "expecting failure" );
+					}
+					catch (TransactionRequiredException expected) {
+						// expected condition
+					}
+				}
+		);
+	}
 }