gracefuly recover from an exception in transaction.commit()

[Jair da Silva Ferreira J�nior]

Hi,
    I am using ojb1.0_rc4, ODMG api with OJB queries and mysql4. I have a problem on 
how to recover from an exception thrown inside the commit of an ODMG transaction. 
Please see the above example code and follow the comments.

    Transaction t=null;
    try{
        t=implementation.newTransaction();
        t.begin();

        // do something...

        t.commit(); //an exception is thrown here! usually the exception root cause is 
an SQLException
    }
    catch(Exception e){
        //log exception
        if(t!=null){
            t.abort(); //here a NullPointerException is thrown. why?
        }
    }

    the stack trace of the NullPointerException thrown in t.abort() is:
        java.lang.NullPointerException
            at org.apache.ojb.odmg.TransactionImpl.doClose(Unknown Source)
            at org.apache.ojb.odmg.TransactionImpl.abort(Unknown Source)
            ...

    Can somebody help me on how to gracefuly recover from an exception in commit? Am I 
doing something wrong?

    Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
    Jair Jr