@PreUpdate doesn't return correct exception message

Question

To validate my entity beans I have created this validation method inside my bean

@PrePersist
@PreUpdate
public void validate(){
    if (startTime.after(stopTime)) throw new ValidationException("Wrong order");
}

The ValidationException looks like this:

@ApplicationException(rollback = true)
public class ValidationException extends RuntimeException {


public ValidationException(String message) {
    super(message);
}
}

If I try to create a bean with

try {
        timeframefacade.create(timeframe);

    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());

e.getMessage() returns "Wrong order", which is correct

try {
        timeframefacade.edit(timeframe);

    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());

it returns "Transaction aborted" which is an EJBException. How do I get the same result as above and avoid all the logging, which also occurs?

Answer 1

Call flush within your edit method to force the preupdate. Otherwise it occurs when the transaction is completing and the container must throw a transaction exception instead.