I have encountered a very unfortunate and strange difference in the way JBoss application server 4.2.2 treats exceptions raised from inside EJB callback methods marked with @PrePersist and @PreUpdate.

My exception is a RuntimeException, and is marked for rollback=false. I use it to report back validation errors. The validation is triggered in the @PrePersist and @PreUpdate callback methods. However, while this behaves very nicely for the persist method, the update does not appear to take the @ApplicationException annotation into account. So the transaction is rolled back and my exception is wrapped inside a javax.persistence.PersistenceException and then inside a javax.transaction.RollbackException, blowing up my whole concept.

I have also tried configuring the ApplicationException in the ejb-jar.xml, but the result was identical.

Here's the exception class:

@ApplicationException(rollback=false)
public class ValidationExceptionRuntimeWrapper extends RuntimeException
{
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

 private ValidationException validationException;


 public ValidationExceptionRuntimeWrapper(ValidationException validationException)
 {
 this.validationException = validationException;
 }

 public ValidationException getValidationException()
 {
 return validationException;
 }

 public void setValidationException(ValidationException validationException)
 {
 this.validationException = validationException;
 }

}