# TransactionAwareCacheManagerProxy, and what it does not cover cacheManager : org.springframework.cache.transaction.TransactionAwareCacheManagerProxy nameOf(1) -> Alice after the identical rollback, nameOf(1) -> Alice The put was registered as a transaction synchronisation and dropped when the transaction rolled back instead of committing. --- what it does not cover: beforeInvocation = true --- inside the same transaction, after an evict declared beforeInvocation=true, a re-read returns : Bobby Not the stale value. The eviction was NOT deferred, and the re-read went to the database and saw the uncommitted row. The reason is in the bytecode: AbstractCacheInvoker.doEvict(cache, key, immediate) calls evictIfPresent() when immediate is true and evict() when it is false, and the decorator only registers a post-commit synchronisation in evict() - evictIfPresent() delegates straight to the target cache. See docs/output/22-decorator-bytecode.txt. Two gaps do remain, and they are structural rather than measurable here: reads are never deferred, so a @Cacheable lookup inside the transaction sees whatever the shared cache holds; and outside a transaction the proxy is a pass-through that writes immediately.