Re: [concern-users] Transient values in subjects, Controller exception

[Holger E. <he...@me...>]

Quoting Manfred Deutsch <mf...@ma...>:

> Hello,
>
> 1) Is is possible to store transient values in subjects?
>
>   I added a non persistant attribute to a subject. In an action I tried
>   to change the value of this attribute. The call to setValue
>   succeeded, but when it returned the value wasn't changed. Looks like
>   it was set to an proxy?

I don't quite understand, what you mean here. Are you using hibernate and are
you talking about a hibernate mapped property?

> 2) I want to process a subject immediately from within a session bean
>   (JBoss). So I called subject.process(subjectId). The call throws a
>   ControllerException: transaction not allowed.
>   subject.announceSubject(...) at same place works fine.
>   How should I start immediate processing of a subject from within a
>   session bean?

the call to process will run several transactions (one per activity). 
it is not
allowed to run it from inside a running transaction. commit or suspend your
transaction, before calling process.

Holger