JTA transaction is not present or the transaction is not in active state

You might have faced this strange error in your BPEL flow which occurs when you are connecting to a particular Partner link from the BPEL process. If this occurs in 10.1.3.5 server you can resolve it by following the steps mentioned below. The error thrown will have the error details as:

ORABPEL-02182

JTA transaction is not present or the transaction is not in active state.
The current JTA transaction is not present or it is not in active state when processing activity or instance "100560639-BpInv4-BpSeq4.3-9". The reason is The execution of this instance "100560639-BpInv4-BpSeq4.3-9" for process "XYZ" is supposed to be in a jta transaction, but the transaction is not present or in active state, please turn on the application server transaction debug logs to get more information..
Please consult your administrator regarding this error.

To resolve this you have to follow the following steps:

1. Stop the SOA Server 
2. Set Transaction-timeout value to 7200 or more in the following file: $SOA_Home\j2ee\config\transaction-manager.xml
3. Set transaction-timeout value to 3600 or more in $SOA_Home\j2ee\application-deployments\orabpel\ejb_ob_engine\orion-ejb-jar.xml 
4. Set syncMaxWaitTime to 240 or more in $SOA_Home\bpel\domains\config\domain.xml.
5. Restart the SOA server.

This should resolve the JTA transaction issu