@ApplicationException is ignored for exceptions in other deployments

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
  • 6.2

Issue

I cannot get the annotation @ApplicationException(rollback = true) to work on a checked exception class, when the exception is deployed in another module than the EAR throwing it.

Resolution

1. Change the jar from being a deployment to a static module, or
2. Add an entry to the ejb-jar.xml

  <application-exception>  
    <exception-class>com.example.SomeRollbackException</exception-class>  
    <rollback>true</rollback>  
  </application-exception>

It is generally not advisable to declare cross-deployment classloading dependencies, since it does not add lifecycle dependencies.

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