Question

I have following code in Spring –

<tx:advice id="transactionAdvice" transaction-manager="transactionManager">
        <tx:attributes>
            <tx:method name="*" propagation="REQUIRED" rollback-for="org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException" no-rollback-for="java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException"
                timeout="30" />
        </tx:attributes>
    </tx:advice>

This configuration will rollback for DataAccessException and all its sub-exceptions. i.e. the exception hierarchy is rolled back. However I want to be able to rollback a set of exceptions (not belonging to same hierarchy). Is it possible to write something like –

<tx:advice id="transactionAdvice" transaction-manager="transactionManager">
        <tx:attributes>
            <tx:method name="*" propagation="REQUIRED" rollback-for="org.springframework.*" no-rollback-for="java.lang.*"
                timeout="30" />
        </tx:attributes>
    </tx:advice>

I have tried the above code but it does not work.

Answer 1

No, you can’t use wildcards, but

   <tx:method name="*" propagation="REQUIRED" rollback-for="org.springframework" no-rollback-for="java.lang" />

will do that you want. Match is positive if the Exception class name contains the pattern.