Thanks Suman !
But I still feel that I'm missing something about CMT stateful beans here.
The API states that
"The afterBegin method notifies a session Bean instance that a new transaction has started, and that the subsequent business methods on the instance will be invoked in the context of the transaction. "
But in Head First EJB, it is said that "CMT transactions cannot stay open across multiple method invocations from a stateful session client."
Don't you find these statements contradictory ?
And the statement "Only stateful session beans can implement SessionSynchronization, because stateless session beans are not allowed to maintain a transaction once a method has ended."
seems to support the first statement and contradict the second.
Can you advice ?
Thanks so much
Vipin
If a session bean instance is participating in a transaction, it is an error for a client to invoke a method on the session object such that the transaction attribute in the deployment descriptor would cause the container to execute the method in a different transaction context or in an unspecified transaction context. In such a case, the container throws the java.rmi.RemoteException to the client if the client is a remote client, or the javax.ejb.EJBException if the client is a local client.