RuntimeException treated as application exception

[Dumitru Postoronca]

Hello,

I am calling an EJB that throws a RuntimeException which gets re-thrown exactly as is to the client.

    @Override
    @TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.SUPPORTS)
    public void methodThrowsSystemEx() {
        throw new RuntimeException();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
        try {
            Object ref = ctx.lookup("MyOtherSes/remote");
            MyOtherSesRemote ses = (MyOtherSesRemote) ref;
            ses.methodThrowsSystemEx();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            System.out.println(ex);
        }
    }

The code outputs 'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException at ses.MyOtherSes.methodThrowsSystemEx(MyOtherSes.java:23)'.
I'm using jboss 5.1GA.

I don't have an ejb-jar.xml file and i haven't specified RuntimeException to be an application exception. I do NOT understand why it throws it as is instead of throwing an EJBException.

Thank you.

[Joe carco]

that is rather strange, I tried that on Glassfish 3.1, a client with main method calling a remote SLSB that throws a RuntimeException in its business method. The client gets an EJBException ... caused by RemoteException

[Dumitru Postoronca]

I have created a new class & new client and this time I get the expected EJBException.
No idea what happened before.