Message Driven bean: message always removed from queue

Question

We use MDB to dequeue messages from database queue (AQ) and want to handle errors: if the transaction rolls back, message should have retry_count updated and after defined retries should move to exception queue.
The problem is, that with all combinations of transactions settings, the message is removed from queue before onMessage is called. If I use Container managed transactions with Mandatory transaction attribute, call to setRollbackOnly fails with message "java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot call setRollbackOnly() current thread is NOT associated with a transaction."
How can I write a MDB, which can commit or rollback message depending on whether exception is or is not thrown? I use JDev 10.1.3.
Thanks,
Viliam
Here are my files:
ejb-jar.xml:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1250'?>
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd">
<ejb-jar>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <message-driven>
      <description>Message Driven Bean</description>
      <display-name>SendSMSBean</display-name>
      <ejb-name>SendSMSBean</ejb-name>
      <ejb-class>sk.transacty.cc.ejb.SendSMSBeanBean</ejb-class>
      <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
      <acknowledge-mode>Auto-acknowledge</acknowledge-mode>
      <message-driven-destination>
        <destination-type>javax.jms.Queue</destination-type>
      </message-driven-destination>
      <resource-ref>
        <res-ref-name>jdbc/CCDataSource</res-ref-name>
        <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
      </resource-ref>
    </message-driven>
  </enterprise-beans>
  <assembly-descriptor>
    <container-transaction>
      <method>
        <ejb-name>SendSMSBean</ejb-name>
        <method-name>*</method-name>
      </method>
      <trans-attribute>Mandatory</trans-attribute>
    </container-transaction>
  </assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>orion-ejb-jar.xml:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1250'?>
<!DOCTYPE orion-ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Evermind//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1 runtime//EN" "http://xmlns.oracle.com/ias/dtds/orion-ejb-jar.dtd">
<orion-ejb-jar>
  <enterprise-beans>
    <message-driven-deployment max-instances="1" name="SendSMSBean" connection-factory-location="java:comp/resource/jmsAQ/QueueConnectionFactories/aqQue" destination-location="java:comp/resource/jmsAQ/Queues/msg_queue" listener-threads="1" min-instances="0"/>
  </enterprise-beans>
  <assembly-descriptor>
    <default-method-access>
      <security-role-mapping impliesAll="true" name="<default-ejb-caller-role>"/>
    </default-method-access>
  </assembly-descriptor>
</orion-ejb-jar>

Answer 1

As far as I know XMLType JMS messages are not supported when using OJMS. They might be for OC4J 10.1.3, but I thought it's an AQ limitation rather than an OC4J one.. To be sure you might just log a TAR on Metalink.
hth,
Bastiaan