Could not commit JPA transaction: Transaction marked as rollbackOnly

Question

I\'m using Spring and Hibernate in one of the applications that I\'m working on and I\'ve got a problem with handling of transactions.

I\'ve got a service class that

Answer 1

For those who can't (or don't want to) setup a debugger to track down the original exception which was causing the rollback-flag to get set, you can just add a bunch of debug statements throughout your code to find the lines of code which trigger the rollback-only flag:

logger.debug("Is rollbackOnly: " + TransactionAspectSupport.currentTransactionStatus().isRollbackOnly());

Adding this throughout the code allowed me to narrow down the root cause, by numbering the debug statements and looking to see where the above method goes from returning "false" to "true".