Spring mvc 3 + hibernate 4

Estou iniciando um projeto com Spring MVC 3 e Hibernate 4, o problema está na implementação da transações, tentei inicialmente com @transational e acabei voltando pra xml, porém nenhuma delas funcionou e não quero gerencia-las na mão.

Quero gerenciar a transação a partir da camada de serviço e assim ir pelos DAOs necessários até completa-las, porém essa transação nunca é aberta.

Aparentemente o Spring não inicia a transação, fazendo com que o hibernate fique responsável pela abertura da sessão.

@Service("userService") @Transactional
    public class UserService {
	@Autowired
	private HBUsuario hDaoUsuario;
	public UserService() {	}

	 @Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED,
	 isolation=Isolation.DEFAULT, timeout=120)	
	public Usuario saveUsuario(String username, String password, String nome, String role) throws Exception{
		
		Usuario user = new Usuario(username, password, nome);    		
		hDaoUsuario.persistir(user);
		return user;
	}

	public HBUsuario gethDaoUsuario() {
		return hDaoUsuario;
	}

	public void sethDaoUsuario(HBUsuario hDaoUsuario) {
		this.hDaoUsuario = hDaoUsuario;
	}
}

HBUsuario

@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.SUPPORTS)
@Repository("hDaoUsuario")
public class HBUsuario extends HBDAO<Usuario> {

	protected Class getClazz() {
		return Usuario.class;
	}

	
	 public void persistir(Usuario objeto) throws Exception {
		getSession().saveOrUpdate(objeto); }
}

@Transactional(propagation=Propagation.SUPPORTS)
public abstract class HBDAO<T> {

	@Autowired
	private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

	public SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
		return sessionFactory;
	}

	public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sf) {
		sessionFactory = sf;
	}

	
	protected Session getSession() throws Exception {
		Session session = getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
		/* comentado para  não usar na mão
		 * try{ if(!session.isConnected()) return getSession(session, 0); else{
		 * if(!session.getTransaction().isActive()) session.beginTransaction();
		 * if(!session.getTransaction().isActive()) return getSession(session, 0); //}
		 * 
		 * } catch(Exception e){ e.printStackTrace(); return getSession(session, 0); }
		 */ // Logar.info("\n*********\nSessão de Banco já disponível no Pool
			// \n*********\n");
		return session;
	}

spring-data.xml

<beans default-autowire="byType"
	xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee"
	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
	xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.1.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">

	<context:annotation-config />
 <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/> 

	<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
		<property name="hibernateProperties">
			<props>
				<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
				<prop key="javax.persistence.validation.mode">none</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
			</props>
		</property>
		<!-- usado para o hibernate -->
		<property name="annotatedClasses">
			<array>
				<value>br.com.becb.icontador.Model.Usuario</value>

			</array>
		</property>

	</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource">
		<!-- property name="jdbcUrl" value="${jdbc.url}" / -->
		<property name="jdbcUrl"
			value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/icontador" />
		<property name="properties">
			<props>
				<prop key="c3p0.min_size">3</prop>
				<prop key="hc3p0.maxPoolSize">20</prop>
				<prop key="hc3p0.timeout">30000</prop>
				<prop key="c3p0.acquire_increment">3</prop>
				<prop key="c3p0.acquire_rentry_attemps">3</prop>
				<prop key="c3p0.max_statements">50</prop>
				<prop key="c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckout">true</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period">100</prop>
				<prop key="c3p0.preferredTestQuery">SELECT	1;	</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckout">true</prop>
				<prop key="hibernate.connection.release_mode">after_transaction </prop>
				<prop key="user">root</prop>
				<prop key="password">root</prop>
				<!-- prop key="user">${jdbc.username}
			</prop>
				<prop key="password">${jdbc.password}</prop -->
			</props> 
		</property>
		<property name="driverClass" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
	</bean>
<tx:advice id="txAdvice"
		transaction-manager="transactionManager">
		<tx:attributes>
			<tx:method name="save*" propagation="REQUIRED"
				isolation="SERIALIZABLE" />
			<tx:method name="*" propagation="SUPPORTS" />
		</tx:attributes>
	</tx:advice>
<aop:config>
		<aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut="execution(* br.com.becb.icontador.servicos.*.*(..))"/>
		
	</aop:config>
</beans>

O erro 1:
org.hibernate.HibernateException: saveOrUpdate is not valid without active transaction

Erro 2
e quando tiro a linha <prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</prop>
org.hibernate.HibernateException: No Session found for current thread