diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9a633a12fc3..b2422389e3e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -251,6 +251,21 @@
 	  <scope>test</scope>
 	</dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
+      <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
+      <version>1.7.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
+      <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
+      <version>1.7.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+        <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
+        <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
+        <version>1</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextBuilder.java b/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextBuilder.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..054ddcdd806
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextBuilder.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+package com.cloud.utils.db;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+
+import org.aspectj.lang.ProceedingJoinPoint;
+import org.aspectj.lang.reflect.MethodSignature;
+
+public class TransactionContextBuilder {
+	public TransactionContextBuilder() {
+	}
+	
+	public Object AroundAnyMethod(ProceedingJoinPoint call) throws Throwable {
+		MethodSignature methodSignature = (MethodSignature)call.getSignature();
+        Method targetMethod = methodSignature.getMethod();	
+        if(needToIntercept(targetMethod)) {
+			Transaction txn = Transaction.open(call.getSignature().getName());
+			Object ret = null;
+			try {
+				 ret = call.proceed();
+			} finally {
+				txn.close();
+			}
+			return ret;
+        }
+        return call.proceed();
+	}
+	
+	private boolean needToIntercept(Method method) {
+        DB db = method.getAnnotation(DB.class);
+        if (db != null) {
+            return db.txn();
+        }
+        
+        Class<?> clazz = method.getDeclaringClass();
+        do {
+            db = clazz.getAnnotation(DB.class);
+            if (db != null) {
+                return db.txn();
+            }
+            clazz = clazz.getSuperclass();
+        } while (clazz != Object.class && clazz != null);
+        
+        return false;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/DbAnnotatedBase.java b/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/DbAnnotatedBase.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c9b77b7de41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/DbAnnotatedBase.java
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+package com.cloud.utils.db;
+
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+@Component
+@DB
+public class DbAnnotatedBase {
+    private static final Logger s_logger = Logger.getLogger(DbAnnotatedBase.class);
+
+    public void MethodWithClassDbAnnotated() {
+    	s_logger.info("called");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/DbAnnotatedBaseDerived.java b/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/DbAnnotatedBaseDerived.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2b845bc3fc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/DbAnnotatedBaseDerived.java
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+package com.cloud.utils.db;
+
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+
+@Component
+public class DbAnnotatedBaseDerived {
+
+	@DB
+	public void DbAnnotatedMethod() {
+	}
+}
diff --git a/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextBuilderTest.java b/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextBuilderTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..74e0ab9bcb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/test/com/cloud/utils/db/TransactionContextBuilderTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package com.cloud.utils.db;
+
+import javax.inject.Inject;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(locations="classpath:/transactioncontextBuilderTest.xml")
+public class TransactionContextBuilderTest {
+
+	@Inject
+	DbAnnotatedBaseDerived _derived; 
+	
+	@Inject
+	DbAnnotatedBase _base;
+	
+	@Test
+	public void test() {
+		_derived.DbAnnotatedMethod();
+		_base.MethodWithClassDbAnnotated();
+	}
+}
diff --git a/utils/test/resources/transactionContextBuilderTest.xml b/utils/test/resources/transactionContextBuilderTest.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4672343a0e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/test/resources/transactionContextBuilderTest.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<beans 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:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" 
+  xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">                     
+  <context:annotation-config />
+           
+  <context:component-scan base-package="org.apache.cloudstack, com.cloud" />
+
+  <aop:config proxy-target-class="true">
+    <aop:aspect id="dbContextBuilder" ref="transactionContextBuilder">
+    <aop:pointcut id="captureAnyMethod"
+      expression="execution(* *(..))" />
+      <aop:around pointcut-ref="captureAnyMethod" method="AroundAnyMethod"/> 
+    </aop:aspect>
+  </aop:config>
+
+  <bean id="transactionContextBuilder" class="com.cloud.utils.db.TransactionContextBuilder" />
+  
+</beans>