Rollback a transaction in a session bean BMP?

Question

The following code would work correctly if executed in a stateless session bean BMP?
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
javax.sql.DataSource dataSource = (javax.sql.DataSource) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/OracleDS");
Connection conn = dataSource.getConnection();     
conn.setAutoCommit(false);
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement("UPDATE TABLE_A SET NAME = 'Duke' WHERE ID = 7");
stmt.executeUpdate();
if (someCondition) {
conn.commit();
} else {
conn.rollback();
My question:
It�s possible to rollback a transaction using rollback() from Connection class in a stateless
session bean BMP?

Answer 1

Dear JDC member:
With EJB, you can gain the benefit of transactions without performing any transaction programming. That is, your enterprise beans never explicitly issue a begin, commit, or abort statement. The container performs it to you. But you have to tell the container how to do it. As you might know, the deploment descriptor is the place for it.
But nothing prevent you to do do programmatic transaction as you want.. For that case you have to know JTA (Java Transaction API) and more.
Suppose the transaction aborts, you have to throw an exception back to the client or try it again. The issue here is with stateless sesssion beans, there is no in-memory conversational state. You might think to implement javax.ejb.SessionSynchronization interface with your business methods....
You see there is a lot to know. You can take care of transactions in the client code, but it is a bad design.
You have to understand today most application servers (Websphere, Weblogic...) are designed to minimize those issues in order to make developers' tasks easier. The container takes care of transactions.
Be careful when you write stateless session beans BMP (BMP are for entiti beans)
Regards,
Armand Komenan