diff --git a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ClassUtils.java b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ClassUtils.java
index 0035e1ad86..9ae3c1d4b4 100644
--- a/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ClassUtils.java
+++ b/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ClassUtils.java
@@ -766,12 +766,28 @@ public abstract class ClassUtils {
 		return method;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Determine whether the given method is declared by the user or at least pointing to
+	 * a user-declared method.
+	 * <p>Checks {@link Method#isSynthetic()} (for implementation methods) as well as the
+	 * {@code GroovyObject} interface (for interface methods; on an implementation class,
+	 * implementations of the {@code GroovyObject} methods will be marked as synthetic anyway).
+	 * Note that, despite being synthetic, bridge methods ({@link Method#isBridge()}) are considered
+	 * as user-level methods since they are eventually pointing to a user-declared generic method.
+	 * @param method the method to check
+	 * @return {@code true} if the method can be considered as user-declared; [@code false} otherwise
+	 */
+	public static boolean isUserLevelMethod(Method method) {
+		return (method.isBridge() ||
+				(!method.isSynthetic() && !method.getDeclaringClass().getName().equals("groovy.lang.GroovyObject")));
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Determine whether the given method is overridable in the given target class.
 	 * @param method the method to check
 	 * @param targetClass the target class to check against
 	 */
-	private static boolean isOverridable(Method method, Class targetClass) {
+	private static boolean isOverridable(Method method, Class<?> targetClass) {
 		if (Modifier.isPrivate(method.getModifiers())) {
 			return false;
 		}
diff --git a/spring-tx/src/main/java/org/springframework/transaction/interceptor/MatchAlwaysTransactionAttributeSource.java b/spring-tx/src/main/java/org/springframework/transaction/interceptor/MatchAlwaysTransactionAttributeSource.java
index e27ee94bf5..90c62d3f9f 100644
--- a/spring-tx/src/main/java/org/springframework/transaction/interceptor/MatchAlwaysTransactionAttributeSource.java
+++ b/spring-tx/src/main/java/org/springframework/transaction/interceptor/MatchAlwaysTransactionAttributeSource.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package org.springframework.transaction.interceptor;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 
+import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ public class MatchAlwaysTransactionAttributeSource implements TransactionAttribu
 
 	@Override
 	public TransactionAttribute getTransactionAttribute(Method method, Class<?> targetClass) {
-		return this.transactionAttribute;
+		return (ClassUtils.isUserLevelMethod(method) ? this.transactionAttribute : null);
 	}
 
 
diff --git a/spring-tx/src/main/java/org/springframework/transaction/interceptor/NameMatchTransactionAttributeSource.java b/spring-tx/src/main/java/org/springframework/transaction/interceptor/NameMatchTransactionAttributeSource.java
index 9d2b5debc8..83b6cd0f6a 100644
--- a/spring-tx/src/main/java/org/springframework/transaction/interceptor/NameMatchTransactionAttributeSource.java
+++ b/spring-tx/src/main/java/org/springframework/transaction/interceptor/NameMatchTransactionAttributeSource.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.util.Properties;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
+import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.PatternMatchUtils;
 
@@ -100,7 +101,11 @@ public class NameMatchTransactionAttributeSource implements TransactionAttribute
 
 	@Override
 	public TransactionAttribute getTransactionAttribute(Method method, Class<?> targetClass) {
-		// look for direct name match
+		if (!ClassUtils.isUserLevelMethod(method)) {
+			return null;
+		}
+
+		// Look for direct name match.
 		String methodName = method.getName();
 		TransactionAttribute attr = this.nameMap.get(methodName);