EJB: Avoid Transaction rollback

Question

When a (transactional) method of an EJB calls another (transactional) method of another EJB, and an exception is thrown in the second, but catched in the first one, it seems tha

Answer 1

Yes, it's true, if the exception is a runtime exception. Checked exceptions don't cause a transaction rollback.

To avoid it, just make sure that the code in methodB doesn't throw any runtime exception. A runtime exception normally indicates a bug, or a state which doesn't allow for continuing the work.