public void onMessage(Message message) {
    String msg = null;
    try
    {
        msg = receiveMessage(message);

      // other code to insert message in db

        message.acknowledge();

        if(true)
        {
        throw new NullPointerException("npe"));
        }
      ** // other code which might produces null pointer exception **
        }
        catch(Exception ex){}
    }

<jms:listener-container container-type="default" connection-factory="calendarConnectionFactory"
                        acknowledge="transacted" destination-type="queue" cache="consumer" concurrency="1-5">
    <jms:listener destination="${jms.calendar.destination}" ref="calendarListener"/>
</jms:listener-container>

@Override
@Transactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED,
        noRollbackFor = {ClassCastException.class, IllegalArgumentException.class})
public void onMessage(Message message) {
 ....
}