For Transaction Events: Event Firing Before Transaction Completes Causes Exception

Simple web application:

• ui has a single button "Save"
• one Web Bean uses javax.transaction.UserTranaction to begin() and commit() transaction:

@Named
@ApplicationScoped
public class Bean implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

@Resource private UserTransaction utx;
@Inject @Any Event<String> event1;

public Bean() {
}

public String save() {
try {
utx.begin();
event1.select(new AnnotationLiteral<Updated>(){}).fire("Fired using Event Interface with AnnotationLiteral.");
utx.commit();
} catch (Exception e) {
}
return null;
}

public void eventObserver(@Observes(during=TransactionPhase.AFTER_COMPLETION) @Updated String s)

{ FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().addMessage(null, new FacesMessage("AfterCompletion Event Recieved!")); }

}

The fact that the firing of the event happens before utx.commit() causes this exception:

Sep 28, 2009 11:50:58 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve log
WARNING: StandardWrapperValve[Faces Servlet]: PWC1406: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception
javax.enterprise.context.ContextNotActiveException: No active contexts for scope type javax.enterprise.context.RequestScoped
at org.jboss.webbeans.BeanManagerImpl.getContext(BeanManagerImpl.java:860)
at org.jboss.webbeans.bean.proxy.ClientProxyMethodHandler.getProxiedInstance(ClientProxyMethodHandler.java:137)
at org.jboss.webbeans.bean.proxy.ClientProxyMethodHandler.invoke(ClientProxyMethodHandler.java:96)
at org.jboss.webbeans.conversation.ConversationImpl_$$javassist_12.toString(ConversationImpl$$_javassist_12.java)
at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2827)
at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:115)
at org.jboss.webbeans.conversation.AbstractConversationManager.cleanupConversation(AbstractConversationManager.java:131)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.jboss.webbeans.bean.proxy.ClientProxyMethodHandler.invoke(ClientProxyMethodHandler.java:110)
at org.jboss.webbeans.conversation.ServletConversationManager_$$javassist_11.cleanupConversation(ServletConversationManager$$_javassist_11.java)
at org.jboss.webbeans.jsf.WebBeansPhaseListener.afterRenderResponse(WebBeansPhaseListener.java:128)
at org.jboss.webbeans.jsf.WebBeansPhaseListener.afterPhase(WebBeansPhaseListener.java:99)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.handleAfterPhase(Phase.java:179)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:103)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:311)