BEFORE_COMPLETION Transactional observer is notified for transaction which is marked for rollback ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: CDI-705 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-705 Project: CDI Specification Issues Issue Type: Bug Components: Events Affects Versions: 2.0 .Final Reporter: Tomas Remes In {{10.4.5. Transactional observer methods}} CDI spec states: {quote} If the transaction is in progress, but javax.transaction.Synchronization callback cannot be registered due to the transaction being already marked for rollback or in state where javax.transaction.Synchronization callbacks cannot be registered, the before completion, after completion and after failure observer methods are notified at the same time as other observers, but after_success observer methods get skipped. {quote} This doesn't conform to JTA spec, which says in {{3.3.2 Transaction Synchronization}}: {quote} The Synchronization.beforeCompletion method is called prior to the start of the two-phase transaction commit process. This call is executed with the transaction context of the transaction that is being committed. {quote} So the before_completion transactional observer shouldn't be notified for transaction marked for rollback. The method {{Synchronization.beforeCompletion}} is actually not called at WildFly and GlassFish app servers for transaction which is marked for rollback.