spontaneous ejbRemove on SSB?

[astehman]

Hey y'all,

Weird behavior - ejbRemove() suddenly being called in the midst of a SSB method execution (which includes a BMT). The only error I see (in server.log):

Application error: BMT stateless bean PeerReviewProcess should complete transactions before returning (ejb1.1 spec, 11.6.1)

But, the SSB method isn't ever getting to return, ejbRemove is being called before the txn is closed - and there are no exceptions showing up anywhere.

In a vain attempt to remedy the problem, I thought maybe it's a txn timeout, so I tried to increase that from the standard 300 by an order of magnitude:
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3000

No dice. Any ideas? Thanks!!

--alexx

[astehman]

The workaround to this makes 0 sense. I took the private method I'd added to the SSB and put it in a helper class the SSB called right before calling its own private method.

So, it was originally (pseudocode here):

ssb.execute
{
helper.callMethod();
this.callMyMethod();
}

Changing to this:

ssb.execute
{
helper.callMethod();
helper.callMyMethod();
}

Is what made the spontaneous ejbremove go away.

This seems quite bizarre to me.