Hi at all,

I have a problem, I have an EJB which has an entry method that is called by the container. I dont want this method to throw an exception, so I put the business code in another method in the same bean:

 @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW)
 public Response processRequest2(Request request) throws Exception
 {
 checkPolicy(request);

 checkExtensions(request);

 // initialize the info object
 Info info = new Info(request);

 // set serial number
 SerialNumber sn = em.find(SerialNumber.class, Long.valueOf(0));
 if (sn == null)
 {
 sn = new SerialNumber(0);
 em.persist(sn);
 logger.log(AdLevel.INFO, "Serial number not found, creating entity");
 }
 BigInteger serial = sn.getSerial();

serial.toString());
 info.setSerialNumber(serial);
 sn.setSerial(serial.add(BigInteger.ONE));

 if (true)
 throw new CryptoProcessorException();


...

This method does not catch the CryptoProcessorException which is annotated with the rollback=true property.

The calling method looks like this:

 public Type processRequest(Type request) throws Exception
 {
 try
 {
 return processRequest2((Request)request);
 }
 catch (Exception e)
 {
 return new Type(e);
 //throw e;
 }
 }

In this case, the serial number is always increased!!!
I'm a bit confused.

But if I rethrow the Exception, the rollback works.

Isnt there a possibility to catch the exception in the processRequest method and to get the rollback working?

Thanks
Thomas