Question

I’m receiving this error:

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
Exception Description: Cannot use an EntityTransaction while using JTA.

While trying to use JPA and JAVAEE, Glassfish.

My persistence.xml file is as follow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd">
    <persistence-unit name="acmeauction">
        <provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider>
        <jta-data-source>jdbc/MySQLJDBCResource</jta-data-source>
        <class>it.uniroma3.acme.auction.model.User</class>
        <class>it.uniroma3.acme.auction.model.Auction</class>
        <properties>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/acmeauction"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="user"/>
            <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="password"/>
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

What i’m trying to do is to persist an object (User), in this way:

@ManagedBean
public class UserRepository implements Serializable{

    @PersistenceUnit
    EntityManagerFactory emf;

    @PersistenceContext
    private EntityManager em; 

    private static UserRepository instance; 

    /**
     * Gives back the singleton UserRepository singleton. 
     */
    public static UserRepository getInstance() {
        if (instance==null) {
            instance = new UserRepository(); 
        }
        return instance; 
    }

    private UserRepository() {
        emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("acmeauction");
        em = emf.createEntityManager();             
    }

    /** 
     * Save and persist a new User. 
     */
    public void save(User user) {
        em.getTransaction().begin(); 
        em.persist(user);
        em.getTransaction().commit(); 
    }
}

While if it try to use UserRepository from a simple Java application, it works correctly.

Thanks in advance,
AN

Answer 1

As the error states, if you are using JTA for transactions, you need to use JTA.

Either use JTA UserTransaction to begin/commit the transaction, or use a RESOURCE_LOCAL persistence unit and non-jta DataSource.

See,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/Transactions