Message Title

For the first test, no exception gets propagated when thrown in the before completion phase. This behaviour is the same with the JBOSS transaction manager: see the logs from the unit test below.
2015-08-03T13:55:08,077 DEBUG test.hhh9888.txsync.impl.TxSyncTestsImpl - START transaction
Aug 03, 2015 1:55:08 PM com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.TransactionStatusManager addService
INFO: ARJUNA012163: Starting service com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.ActionStatusService on port 57956
Aug 03, 2015 1:55:08 PM com.arjuna.ats.internal.arjuna.recovery.TransactionStatusManagerItem <init>
INFO: ARJUNA012337: TransactionStatusManagerItem host: 127.0.0.1 port: 57956
Aug 03, 2015 1:55:08 PM com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.TransactionStatusManager start
INFO: ARJUNA012170: TransactionStatusManager started on port 57956 and host 127.0.0.1 with service com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.recovery.ActionStatusService
2015-08-03T13:55:08,113 DEBUG test.hhh9888.txsync.impl.TxSyncTestsImpl - REGISTER synchronization
2015-08-03T13:55:08,114 DEBUG test.hhh9888.txsync.impl.TxSyncTestsImpl - COMMIT transaction
Aug 03, 2015 1:55:08 PM org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationUtils triggerBeforeCompletion
SEVERE: TransactionSynchronization.beforeCompletion threw exception
test.hhh9888.txsync.MyVeryCustomException
	at test.hhh9888.txsync.impl.TxSyncTestsImpl$1.beforeCompletion(TxSyncTestsImpl.java:37)
	at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionSynchronizationUtils.triggerBeforeCompletion(TransactionSynchronizationUtils.java:106)
	at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.triggerBeforeCompletion(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:941)
	at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.processCommit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:741)
	at org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.commit(AbstractPlatformTransactionManager.java:726)
	at test.hhh9888.txsync.impl.TxSyncTestsImpl.throwExceptionBeforeCompletion(TxSyncTestsImpl.java:65)
	at test.hhh9888.txsync.TxSyncTestsTest.testThrowExceptionBeforeCompletion(TxSyncTestsTest.java:23)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
	at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
	at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
	at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestMethodCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestMethodCallbacks.java:73)
	at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestMethodCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestMethodCallbacks.java:82)
	at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.SpringRepeat.evaluate(SpringRepeat.java:73)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
	at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:224)
	at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:83)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
	at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
	at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:68)
	at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
	at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:163)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:86)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:459)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:675)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:382)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:192)

2015-08-03T13:55:08,117 DEBUG test.hhh9888.txsync.impl.TxSyncTestsImpl - Completed transaction with status=STATUS_COMMITTED