Oracle Fusion Middleware

While running Bpel processes you might run into the following errors:

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Transaction Rolledback.: weblogic.transaction.internal.TimedOutException: Transaction timed out

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weblogic.transaction.internal.TimedOutException: Transaction timed out after xxx seconds

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Caused by: weblogic.transaction.TimedOutException: Transaction timed out after 299 seconds

…. And so on….

Explanation & Solution:

Those errors occurs  when you run synchronous processes and don’t configure the transaction timeout correctly, or at all.
There are 3 parameters that affects this behavior:
syncMaxWaitTime, BPEL EJB’s transaction timeout, Global Transaction Timeout

Follow the bellow steps in order to understand how to increase the transaction timeout:

1. First, keep the next relationship between those 3 parameters:
   syncMaxWaitTime < BPEL EJB’s transaction timeout < Global Transaction Timeout
   
2. Set the syncMaxWaitTime parameter:
   Log into EM ->Right click on “soa-infra” -> “SOA Administration” -> “BPEL Properties” -> Click “More BPEL Configuration Properties”-> Change the value for syncMaxWaitTime
3. Set the BPEL EJB’s transaction parameter:
   Shut down SOA server.
   Log into Welogic console ->Deployment-> Expand soa-infra -> EJB’s -> for each of the following EJBs, change the ‘Transaction Timeout’ in the Configuration tab and save it:BPELActivityManagerBean
   BPELDeliveryBean
   BPELDispatcherBean
   BPELEngineBean
   BPELFinderBean
   BPELInstanceManagerBean
   BPELProcessManagerBean
   BPELSensorValuesBean
   BPELServerManagerBean
   Mark the checkbox of the soa-infra under Deployment and update it.
   Start  SOA server.
4. Set the Global Transaction Timeout parameter:
   Log into Welogic console -> Services -> JTA -> change the ‘Transaction Timeout” and save
   Restart Weblogic server