Question

If I have an Exception with an @ApplicationException(inherited = true, rollback = true) but I want a subclass to not rollback. Can I just annotate the subclass with @ApplciationException(rollback = false)? Or will that not work? The spec doesn’t seem to say, that I could find.

Answer 1

The EJB 3.1 spec (JSR 318) does explain this in section 14.2.1. There is an example:

In the following example :
@ApplicationException(rollback=true)
public class ExceptionA extends RuntimeException
public class ExceptionB extends ExceptionA
@ApplicationException(inherited=false, rollback=false)
public class ExceptionC extends ExceptionB
public class ExceptionD extends ExceptionC

ExceptionA is an application exception with transaction rollback.
ExceptionB is an application exception with transaction rollback.
ExceptionC is an application exception without transaction rollback.
ExceptionD is not an application exception.