Not be able to obtain a transacted session within stateless session bean

Question

I need some assistance on creating a transacted session. For some reason while within a stateless session bean, I am unable to create a transacted session even though I'm specifying to create the transacted queue session. Can anyone provide any assistance to me on this? It would be much appreciated.
Here is the code snippets involved with the problem:
Code snipet from ejb-jar.xml:
<session>
<display-name>Initial Request</display-name>
<ejb-name>InitialRequestBean</ejb-name>
<ejb-class>com.raytheon.rds.jms.InitialRequestBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Container</transaction-type>
</session>
Code from stateless session bean:
static Logger logger;
private QueueConnectionFactory connectionFactory;
private SessionContext sc;
private Queue requestQueue;
public String processRequest(String msgBody)
logger.log(Level.INFO, "In processRequest(String).", msgBody);
QueueConnection con = null;
QueueSession session = null;
QueueSender sender = null;
TextMessage message = null;
String messageID = null;
QueueReceiver receiver = null;
TemporaryQueue replyQueue = null;
boolean transacted = false;
try
//Create the infrastructure (ie. The connection & the session)
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Creating connection");
con = connectionFactory.createQueueConnection();
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Creating session");
session = con.createQueueSession(true, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE);
//Note: This line above was changed in all possible permutation and still didn't work such as using Session.SESSION_TRANSACTED
transacted = session.getTransacted();
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Is session transacted? : " + transacted);
//Note: This line above is constantly saying false
//Now first, setup the temporary reply queue and its listener
replyQueue = session.createTemporaryQueue();
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Creating receiver/consumer");
receiver = session.createReceiver(replyQueue);
con.start();
//Now create the requestor that will make the request message and put it on the request queue
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Creating Requestor/Producer");
sender = session.createSender(requestQueue);
//Now create the message and make sure that you put the "JMSReplyTo" property to the temporary response queue we just created
message = session.createTextMessage();
message.setJMSReplyTo(replyQueue);
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Created message: " + message.getJMSMessageID());
//Now add the actual info you want to send
message.setText(msgBody);
//Now send the message
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Sending message: " + message.getText());
sender.send(message);
//Now wait until we get a response
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Waiting for the response message");
Message responseMsg = receiver.receive(20000); //Toggle the "0" to specify timeout in millisectionds
//Process the message
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Processing the response message");
if(null != responseMsg)
logger.log(Level.FINE, "responseMsg is : " + responseMsg.toString());
messageID = processMessage(responseMsg);
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Response is : " + messageID);
//close the connection
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Stopping the connection");
con.stop();
catch (Throwable t)
// JMSException could be thrown
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Exception Thrown in sendRequest: ", t);
sc.setRollbackOnly();
finally
//Close the sender
if (sender != null)
try
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Closing the sender");
sender.close();
catch (JMSException e)
logger.log(Level.WARNING, "JMSException Thrown when trying to close the sender to the request queue: ", e);
else
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Sender is already closed.");
//Close the receiver
if (receiver != null)
try
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Closing the receiver");
receiver.close();
catch (JMSException e)
logger.log(Level.WARNING, "JMSException Thrown when trying to close the receiver to the request queue: ", e);
else
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Receiver is already closed.");
//Close the session
if (session != null)
try
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Closing the session");
session.close();
catch (JMSException e)
logger.log(Level.WARNING, "JMSException Thrown when trying to close the session to the request queue: ", e);
else
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Session is already closed.");
//Close the connection
if (con != null)
try
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Closing the connection");
con.close();
catch (JMSException e)
logger.log(Level.WARNING, "JMSException Thrown when trying to close the connection to the reply queue: ", e);
else
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Connection is already closed.");
return messageID;
}

Answer 1

I found the answer through lots of painful searching.
http://blogs.sun.com/fkieviet/entry/request_reply_from_an_ejb
This weblog from Frank Kieviet from a sun blog explains what's happening behind the scenes.
Then I proceeded to create a Bean-Managed Transaction out of my EJB, which is using EJB 3.0. This requires the tag:
@TransactionManagement(value= TransactionManagementType.BEAN)
Note: I got this information from http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/web.1013/b28221/servtran001.htm#BAJIBAFF
Then I just added the code specified in Frank's blog and everything is working now. The main portion of the code looks like this now:
//begin the user transaction
ctx.getUserTransaction().begin();
//Create the infrastructure (ie. The connection & the session)
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Creating connection");
con = connectionFactory.createQueueConnection();
//Create the session
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Creating session");
session = con.createQueueSession(false, Session.SESSION_TRANSACTED);
transacted = session.getTransacted();
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Is session transacted? : " + transacted);
//Now create the sender that will make the request message and put it on the request queue
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Creating Sender");
sender = session.createSender(requestQueue);
//Now create the message
message = session.createTextMessage();
//Now add the actual info you want to send
message.setText(msgBody);
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Created message: " + message.getJMSMessageID());
//Now first, setup the temporary reply queue and its listener
replyQueue = session.createTemporaryQueue();
if(null != replyQueue)
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Created temporary queue: " + replyQueue.getQueueName());
else
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Temporary Queue could not be created.");
//make sure that you put the "JMSReplyTo" property to the temporary response queue we just created
message.setJMSReplyTo(replyQueue);
//Now send the message
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Sending message: " + message.getText());
sender.send(message);
//Now start the connection
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Starting the connection");
con.start();
//commit the changes
ctx.getUserTransaction().commit();
ctx.getUserTransaction().begin();
//Create the receiver
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Creating Receiver");
receiver = session.createReceiver(replyQueue);
//Now wait until we get a response
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Waiting for the response message");
Message responseMsg = receiver.receive(20000); //Toggle the "0" to specify timeout in millisectionds
//Process the message
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Processing the response message");
if(null != responseMsg)
logger.log(Level.FINE, "responseMsg is : " + responseMsg.toString());
else
logger.log(Level.FINE, "No response came back.");
messageID = processMessage(responseMsg);
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Response is : " + messageID);
logger.log(Level.FINE, "Transaction is complete");
//commit the changes
ctx.getUserTransaction().commit();