How to handle JPA unique constraint violations?

Question

When a unique constraint is violated, a javax.persistence.RollbackException is thrown. But there could be multiple reasons to throw a RollbackException

Answer 1

You have to catch javax.persistence.PersistenceException. Thrown exception is org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException.

Exception Message : org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException: Duplicate entry '893073116V-1234567' for key 'nic_account_no'