Hello, I've stumbled upon a contradiction in the JEE spec:
1. The UserTransaction javadoc [1] states that if the thread is already associated with a transaction and the Transaction Manager implementation does not support nested transactions, a NotSupportedException will be thrown. 2. On the other hand, the javadoc of the Transactional annotation [2] states that if an attempt is made to call any method of the UserTransaction interface from within the scope of a bean or method annotated with @Transactional and a Transactional.TxType other than NOT_SUPPORTED or NEVER, an IllegalStateException must be thrown So if I have @Transactional(TxType.REQUIRED) then what userTransaction.begin() should throw - IllegalStateException or NotSupportedException ? Where is the proper place to ask for clarification ? Is the jira @ java.net the proper place for such question ? [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/transaction/UserTransaction.html#begin-- [2] http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/transaction/Transactional.html Best regards, Svetlin
