This issue occurs when someone tries to begin a transaction in bean managed transaction process and previous tx is still in process or hung without either committing or rolling back.

I have experienced this issue while working on a transaction based web service application. In order to resolve this, I would recommend to check the status of the transaction object created. Add below lines of code before beginning a transaction, in order to resolve this issue.

int txStatus = transaction.getStatus(); if (txStatus == Status.STATUS_MARKED_ROLLBACK || txStatus == Status.STATUS_ROLLEDBACK) { logger.warn(“Rolling back the transaction”); transaction.rollback(); }