[jbossts-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBTM-990) com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.jts.BaseTransaction catches and throws a NullPointerException instead of checking if it is null first

com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.jts.BaseTransaction catches and throws a NullPointerException instead of checking if it is null first --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBTM-990 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBTM-990 Project: JBoss Transaction Manager Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Affects Versions: 4.15.3 Reporter: Stuart Douglas Assignee: Tom Jenkinson Fix For: 4.16.1, 5.0.0.M2 com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.jts.BaseTransaction has the following: try { return theTransaction.getStatus(); } catch (NullPointerException ex) { return javax.transaction.Status.STATUS_NO_TRANSACTION; } This mean's that anyone trying to debug a NPE with an exception breakpoint will constantly hit this, as well as being much slower than a simple null check.