@PreUpdate entity callback not running in caller's context when Container Managed Transactions are used ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-2968 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2968 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: EJB, JPA / Hibernate Affects Versions: 7.1.0.Beta1 Reporter: Juerg Weilenmann Assignee: jaikiran pai Fix For: 7.1.0.CR1 If an Entity Bean has a @PreUpdate listener, the listener is not called in the context of the caller (session bean) in case of Container Managed Transactions. As a result, an jndi lookup in the callback for 'java:comp/EJBContext' returns always null. The @PreUpdate callback should run in the context of the caller. {noformat} @Entity @EntityListeners({ MyListener.class }) public class MyEntity { ... } {noformat} {noformat} public class MyListener { @PreUpdate @PrePersist public void onEntityCallback(Object entity) { EJBContext ctx; ctx = createInitialContext().lookup("java:comp/EJBContext"); System.out.println(ctx.getCallerPrincipal().getName()); } } {noformat} {noformat} @Stateless public class MyServiceBean implements MyServiceRemote { @Override public void updateEntity(MyEntity entity) { entityManager.merge(entity); } } {noformat} This listener works fine on @PrePersist (Container- and Bean Managed Transactions) but fails on @PreUpdate with a NullPointerException if container managed transactions are used. Workaround: use User Transactions instead of Container Managed Transactions