@Transactional not starting transaction in some cases?

[Alex Roytman <ro...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I am using Weld (3.1.2) and Deltaspike (1.9.1) to drive Eclipselink JPA
(2.7.5)
My EntityManager producer produces request scoped entity managers

@Produces
  @RequestScoped
  protected EntityManager createEntityManager() {
    return entityManagerFactory.createEntityManager();
  }

I have a case where transaction is not getting started on @ApplicationScope
bean:

public MyBean{
@Inject private EntityManager em;

public void methodA{
....
try{
  methodB()
} catch {
// perform non DB rollback logic here
}

@Transactional
public void methodB{
   //obtain and manipulate entities via em instance
 // checking em.getTransaction().isActive() returns false
}
}

method  methodA() gets called from Jersey resource
if I annotate the top level method  methodA as @Transactional everything
works however when  methodB is annotated and called from  methodA no
transaction is started

while my usage is a bit fishy (what if transaction is started before
calling  methodA but it works for this particular case and I have checks
for it not to be ran in existing transaction) still I would expect methodB
to start transaction.

Any suggestions is appreciated.

Thank you,
alex