In page 556 of HFEJB what's the answer for Point no.6?

[saran ram]

In page 556, point 6,
A bean wants the client to get an application exception, but the bean still wants the transaction to commit. What should the bean do? what's the answer for this?

[Bart Laeremans]

I'm just studying for the exam myself, and I think the
answer is as followed.

The bean should just throw the application exception,
because only system exception would automatically cause
the transaction to rollback.

To roleback a transaction with a application exception
the bean should call setRollbackOnly before throwing
the exception.

Greetings

[saran ram]

Bart, that means,if we call setRollbackOnly() before throwing
the exception, will the transaction surly gets committed?

[Thiru Thangavelu]

No, If you call setRollbackOnly() before throwing the exception, the transaction will never get committed. If you don't call the container will commit the transaction before throwing the application exception.