If you don't, a RuntimeException causes a domino effect in transaction
failures up the stack. Check EJB spec for the details of exception handling.
Best,
-marina
Oleg Mayevskiy wrote:
> No, i don't
> Should i?
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Marina Vatkina [mailto:marina.vatkina_at_oracle.com]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 3. September 2010 19:03
> An: persistence_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
> Betreff: Re: Transaction flow problem using @TransactionAttribute
>
> Do you catch and suppress exception in ejb3 when ejb4.notify fails?
>
> -marina
>
> Oleg Mayevskiy wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I have a problem with transaction flow (commitment).
>>
>> Here is my scenario.
>>
>> 1) Call ejb method ejb1.notify(…) it has no special
>> TransactionAttributeType annotated, so TransactionAttributeType = REQUIRED
>>
>> 2) Inside of ejb1 I call ejb2.notify(…) this notify method is
>> annotated with
>> @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW), so new
>> transaction is made here
>>
>> 3) Inside of ejb2 I call then ejb3.notify(…) this again has no special
>> TransactionAttributeType annotated, so transaction from ejb2 is used
>>
>> 4) Inside of ejb3 I call ejb4.notify(…) this is annotated with
>> @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW),so new
>> transaction should be used, but this transaction failes and rolles back.
>>
>> 5) What I now would expect is that transaction of ejb2.notify and also
>> of ejb3.notify process successfully, but it failes too, because
>> ejb4.notify failed, why does it happen? I would expect this behavior
>> only if ejb4.notify(…) would have no
>> TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW)
>> annotation, but REQUIRED instead.
>>
>> Mayby I must tell little more about ejb3 class
>>
>> It is definied like this:
>>
>> @Stateless
>>
>> public class Ejb4 extends Ejb3abstractClass implements Ejb4Local {…}
>>
>> where Ejb3abstractClass is an abstract java class without @Stateless
>> annotation
>>
>> so the implementation of ejb4.notify(…) method is inside the
>> Ejb4abstractClass , also the
>> @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW)
>> annotation is made here and not directly in Ejb4 class, maybe is this
>> the problem? Please tell me if not.
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Oleg Mayevskiy
>>
>>
>
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