UnexpectedRollbackException - a full scenario analysis

Question

All I know about this exception is from Spring\'s documentation and some forum posts with frostrated developers pasting huge stack traces, and no replies.

From Sprin

Answer 1

Well I can tell you how to reproduce the UnexpectedRollbackException. I was working on my project, and I got this UnexpectedRollbackException in following situation. I am having controller, service and dao layers in my project. What I did is in my service layer class,

class SomeServiceClass {
    void outerTransaction() {
        // some lines of code
        innerTransaction();
        //AbstractPlatformTransactionManager tries to commit but UnexpectedRollbackException is thrown, not here but in controller layer class that uses SomeServiceClass.
    }

    void innerTransaction() {
        try {
            // someDaoMethod or someDaoOperation that throws exception
        } catch(Exception e) {
            // when exception is caught, transaction is rolled back, outer transaction does not know about it.
            // I got this point where inner transaction gets rolled back when I set HibernateTransactionManager.setFailEarlyOnGlobalRollbackOnly(true)
            // FYI : use of following second dao access is wrong, 
            try {
                // again some dao operation
            } catch(Exception e1) {
                throw e2;
            }
        }
    }
}