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application-exception

The <application-exception> tag specifies a list of application-specific excep-
tions that may be thrown by your EJBs and MDBs:

<ejb-jar...>
<assembly-descriptor>
<application-exception>...</application-exception>
</assembly-descriptor>
</ejb-jar>

By listing application exceptions, you can configure whether the exception will cause a
rollback of the current transaction. By default, an EJBException will trigger a rollback
but application exceptions do not. This tag corresponds to the @ ApplicationExcep-
tion annotation. Table A.10 describes the tags to configure <application-excep-
tion> .

Table A.10. Tags to configure <application-exception>

Tag name Description

exception-class Specifies the fully qualified name of the exception class.

Specifies if the container should roll back the transaction before
throwing the exception up to the client.

rollback