I have a CMT Stateful Session Bean calling an Entity Bean. The Entity calls a EntityContext.setRollbackOnly() if it encounters an SQLException, prior to throwing an application exception, and it closes the connection in the finally clause.

I have noticed that jboss waits till the transaction times out, and then rolls back the transaction with a NullPointerException. Any calls to the SSB instance are obviously blocked during that time, which is not desireable.

I need to ensure a rollback, which only occurs through a setRollbackOnly(), but the odd behavior is not desireable.

I am confused, any help would be gladly appreciated.

The transaction attribute on SSB = Supports
The transaction attribute on EB = Required

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