Re: Unable to commit: transaction marked for rollback

David Kerr wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm intermittantly getting this error message in a java app.
> using Geronimo / Hibernate / Postgres 8.3.9
>
> javax.transaction.RollbackException: Unable to commit: transaction marked for
> rollback

This looks like a JTA exception not a JDBC exception.

i.e. something has marked the TM-managed transaction for rollback via
Transaction.setRollbackOnly()

This can happen for all sorts of reasons, from an explicit request from
your application, through to container handling of an unexpected
exception from an EJB, etc.

-O