In the JBoss EAP why am I getting the exception Transaction is not active ?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • A session bean is invoking its own method (called secondMethod) annotated with @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW). If an exception occurring inside secondMethod, it should not compromise the transaction of the calling method (called rootMethod). However this is not the case, rollback is getting triggered:

    Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.GenericJDBCException: Cannot open connection
        ... 37 more
Caused by: org.jboss.util.NestedSQLException: Transaction is not active:
tx=TransactionImple < ac, BasicAction: aa266fb:e81f:4b74a03b:11f26e
status: ActionStatus.ABORT_ONLY >; - nested throwable:
(javax.resource.ResourceException: Transaction is not active:
tx=TransactionImple < ac, BasicAction: aa266fb:e81f:4b74a03b:11f26e
status: ActionStatus.ABORT_ONLY >)
        at org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.WrapperDataSource.getConnection(WrapperDataSource.java:96)
        at org.hibernate.connection.DatasourceConnectionProvider.getConnection(DatasourceConnectionProvider.java:69)
        at org.hibernate.jdbc.ConnectionManager.openConnection(ConnectionManager.java:423)
        ... 50 more
Caused
by: javax.resource.ResourceException: Transaction is not active:
tx=TransactionImple < ac, BasicAction: aa266fb:e81f:4b74a03b:11f26e
status: ActionStatus.ABORT_ONLY >
        at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.TxConnectionManager.getManagedConnection(TxConnectionManager.java:319)
        at org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.BaseConnectionManager2.allocateConnection(BaseConnectionManager2.java:403)
        ... 52 more

Environment

  • Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 4.3 CP02

  • Session Bean is as follow (Specifically for this exception with Remote EJBs)

    @Stateless
public class ManagerBean  implements ManagerBeanRemote{
  @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW)
  public void rootMethod() { 
    ...
    result = secondMethod();     
    ...
  }

  @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW)
  private Object secondMethod() {
    ...; 
  }
  ...
}

  • Superclass to a @Name Seam component contains a method(s) which does not define @Transactional or join the transaction

    public E update(E entity) throws SomeException {

    beforeUpdate(entity);

    if (!isManaged(entity)) {

        entity = getEntityManager().merge(entity);

    }

    getEntityManager().flush();

    return entity;

}

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