Cmt

Being in EJB and JPA world using CMT (Container Managed Transactions) is very comfortable. Just define few annotations to demarcate transaction boundary (or use the defaults) and that’s it – no fiddling with manual begin, commit or rollback operations. One way to rollback your transaction is to throw non-application exception (or application exception with rollback = true) from your EJB’s business method. It seems simple: if during some operation there is a possibility that an exception will be thrown and you don’t want to rollback your tx than you should just catch this exception and you’re fine....

You probably know that if you use BMT (Bean Managed Transactions) you can get information about current transaction status by using UserTransaction interface (which implementation can be fetched either by JNDI or using dependency injection) and executing it’s getStatus() method. If you use CMT (Container Managed Transactions) you cannot use UserTransaction interface. Instead, you can manage your transaction through SessionContext interface. This interface gives you two places that hooks to the current transaction: setRollbackOnly(-) and getRollbackOnly()....