Runtime Exception Makes trasaction Inactive

[rodedh]

I have the following code:

@PersistenceContext(unitName = "FrontEndDB")
 private EntityManager frontendManager;

 @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
 public void persistData(List<SomeData> dataEntities) {
 //Persist data
 for (SomeData data : dataEntities) {
 try {
 frontendManager.persist(data);
 } catch (Exception e) {
 log.error("Error while persisting some data " + SomeData.class.getName() + " entity.", e);
 }
 }
 }

I call through a local EJB to the above method.
If some sort of runtime exception occurs in the try block, the next iteration fails due to transaction not active.

I expect the transaction to end when the method ends regardless the exception.

What can I do to reactive the transaction?
Should I do that?

Thanks,
Rod