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                                             entity-manager, envers
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                                             Hibernate 4.3.0.Beta4 <br /> PostgreSQL (database actually does not matter) <br /> JBoss EAP 6.1 (not using embedded Hibernate, using included into .war instead; application server actually does not matter)
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">(<em>Please note that I'm filing this bug initially without a test case (will try to create one once if I have some free time), just trying to convey this misbehavior that might be fixed in the forthcoming 4.3.0.</em>)</p>
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">0. Create a .war application (include hibernate-core and hibernate-envers version 4.3.0.Beta4)<br /> 1. Use plain Hibernate, no JPA (<tt>hibernate.cfg.xml</tt> and <tt>*.hbm.xml</tt> mappings)<br /> 2. Use an entity that is <tt>@Audited</tt><br /> 3. Configure Hibernate to use JTA in <tt>hibernate.cfg.xml</tt>. The relevant settings are:</p>
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       &lt;property name=<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;hibernate.current_session_context_class&quot;</span>&gt;jta&lt;/property&gt;
        &lt;property name=<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;hibernate.transaction.factory_class&quot;</span>&gt;org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jta.JtaTransactionFactory&lt;/property&gt;
        &lt;property name=<span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;hibernate.transaction.jta.platform&quot;</span>&gt;org.hibernate.engine.transaction.jta.platform.internal.JBossAppServerJtaPlatform&lt;/property&gt;
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">4. Add simple code saving new audited entity like below:</p>
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javax.transaction.UserTransaction ut = &lt;get it from container&gt;;
ut.begin();

sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().save(<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">new</span> AuditedEntity());

ut.commit();
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">At the commit time, there will be an exception as Envers cannot save audit information claiming Hibernate transaction is not active:</p>
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Caused by: javax.transaction.RollbackException: ARJUNA016053: Could not commit transaction.
        at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.commitAndDisassociate(TransactionImple.java:1177)
        at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.BaseTransaction.commit(BaseTransaction.java:126)
        at com.arjuna.ats.jbossatx.BaseTransactionManagerDelegate.commit(BaseTransactionManagerDelegate.java:75)
        at org.jboss.tm.usertx.client.ServerVMClientUserTransaction.commit(ServerVMClientUserTransaction.java:167)
        at com.rolotex.common.transaction.TransactionHelper.commitTransaction(TransactionHelper.java:49) [common-trunk.jar:]
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Caused by: org.hibernate.envers.exception.AuditException: Unable to create revision because of non-active transaction
        at org.hibernate.envers.event.spi.BaseEnversEventListener.checkIfTransactionInProgress(BaseEnversEventListener.java:146) [hibernate-envers-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.envers.event.spi.EnversPostUpdateEventListenerImpl.onPostUpdate(EnversPostUpdateEventListenerImpl.java:51) [hibernate-envers-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.action.internal.EntityUpdateAction.postUpdate(EntityUpdateAction.java:265) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.action.internal.EntityUpdateAction.execute(EntityUpdateAction.java:223) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue.execute(ActionQueue.java:377) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:369) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue.executeActions(ActionQueue.java:287) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.event.internal.AbstractFlushingEventListener.performExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:340) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:52) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1235) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:405) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.synchronization.internal.SynchronizationCallbackCoordinatorImpl.beforeCompletion(SynchronizationCallbackCoordinatorImpl.java:113) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.synchronization.internal.RegisteredSynchronization.beforeCompletion(RegisteredSynchronization.java:53) [hibernate-core-4.3.0.Beta4.jar:4.3.0.Beta4]
        at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.resources.arjunacore.SynchronizationImple.beforeCompletion(SynchronizationImple.java:76)
        at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TwoPhaseCoordinator.beforeCompletion(TwoPhaseCoordinator.java:273)
        at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TwoPhaseCoordinator.end(TwoPhaseCoordinator.java:93)
        at com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.AtomicAction.commit(AtomicAction.java:162)
        at com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.TransactionImple.commitAndDisassociate(TransactionImple.java:1165)
        ... 35 more
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        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">protected</span> void checkIfTransactionInProgress(SessionImplementor session) {
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">if</span> ( !session.isTransactionInProgress() ) {
                        <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// Historical data would not be flushed to audit tables <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091; color: #808080">if</span> outside of active transaction
</span>                        <span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// (AuditProcess#doBeforeTransactionCompletion(SessionImplementor) not executed).
</span>                        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">throw</span> <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">new</span> AuditException( <span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Unable to create revision because of non-active transaction&quot;</span> );
                }
        }
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">The workaround we use is to call <tt>.begin()</tt> on Hibernate transaction after calling <tt>.begin()</tt> on UserTransaction:</p>
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javax.transaction.UserTransaction ut = &lt;get it from container&gt;;
ut.begin();

<span class="code-comment" style="color: #808080">// Workaround - explicitly start Hibernate transaction
</span>Session session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
org.hibernate.Transaction transaction = session.getTransaction();
transaction.begin();

sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().save(<span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">new</span> AuditedEntity());

ut.commit();
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Proposed fix is to change <tt>AbstractTransactionImpl.localStatus</tt> to <tt>LocalStatus.ACTIVE</tt> when joining JTA transaction, as </p>
                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0"><tt>session.isTransactionInProgress()</tt> check eventually delegates to <tt>TransactionCoordinatorImpl</tt> method:</p>
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        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">boolean</span> isTransactionInProgress() {
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> open &amp;&amp; getTransaction().isActive() &amp;&amp; getTransaction().getJoinStatus() == JoinStatus.JOINED;
        }
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">and <tt>JtaTransaction.isActive()</tt> method checks <tt>localStatus</tt> first:</p>
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        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">public</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">boolean</span> isActive() <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">throws</span> HibernateException {
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">if</span> ( getLocalStatus() != LocalStatus.ACTIVE ) {
                        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">false</span>;
                }

                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">final</span> <span class="code-object" style="color: #910091">int</span> status;
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">try</span> {
                        status = userTransaction.getStatus();
                }
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">catch</span> ( SystemException se ) {
                        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">throw</span> <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">new</span> TransactionException( <span class="code-quote" style="color: #009100">&quot;Could not determine transaction status: &quot;</span>, se );
                }
                <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">return</span> JtaStatusHelper.isActive( status );
        }
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">The problem is that <tt>AbstractTransactionImpl</tt> class has the following field with the default set to <tt>LocalStatus.NOT_ACTIVE</tt>:</p>
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        <span class="code-keyword" style="color: #000091">private</span> LocalStatus localStatus = LocalStatus.NOT_ACTIVE;
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">This field is only changed when <tt>begin()</tt>, <tt>commit()</tt>, <tt>rollback()</tt> methods are called on <tt>org.hibernate.Transaction</tt>.</p>
                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">When Hibernate joins JTA transaction in the test code above, this field is NOT changed (that's the bug).</p>
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Although I'm not familiar with the Hibernate codebase, perhaps the fix is to set <tt>localStatus</tt> to <tt>LocalStatus.ACTIVE</tt> in <tt>JtaTransaction</tt> constructor IF the JTA transaction is already in progress. However, I guess it does not cover the case when <tt>UserTransaction</tt> is started after this constructor is invoked (not sure if such scenario is possible, though). Also, it may contradict <tt>localStatus</tt> meaning that seems to be designation of <tt>begin()</tt>, <tt>commit()</tt>, <tt>rollback()</tt> method calls on <tt>org.hibernate.Transaction</tt>.</p>
                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">Thus, the other alternative is to remove &quot;<tt>getLocalStatus() != LocalStatus.ACTIVE</tt>&quot; check from <tt>JtaTransaction.isActive()</tt> method and delegate just to <tt>UserTransaction</tt> to check the state. Note that <tt>Transaction.isActive()</tt> JavaDoc says &quot;Answers on a best effort basis&quot;, thus it should be a valid approach, I believe. Also, similar <tt>CMTTransaction</tt> does not perform <tt>getLocalStatus()</tt> check.</p>
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                                            <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;; margin: 10px 0 0 0">NOTE: I found a report of a similar error with Hibernate + Envers + JTA, and one of the comments is that using JPA instead of plain Hibernate resolves the issue.I have had no chance to check if really using JPA workarounds the issue (see <a href="https://community.jboss.org/thread/168087?start=0&amp;tstart=0&amp;_sscc=t" class="external-link" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b73af; text-decoration: none">https://community.jboss.org/thread/168087?start=0&amp;tstart=0&amp;_sscc=t</a>).</p>
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