"WFTXN0001: A transaction is already in progress" failure for JBeret batch after transaction timeout in JBoss EAP

Issue

• Following a transaction timeout, chunks fail with the error below

  ... JBERET000007: Failed to run job ..., org.jberet.job.model.Chunk...: javax.transaction.NotSupportedException: WFTXN0001: A transaction is already in progress
      at org.wildfly.transaction.client.ContextTransactionManager.begin(ContextTransactionManager.java:60)
      at org.wildfly.transaction.client.ContextTransactionManager.begin(ContextTransactionManager.java:54)
      at org.jberet.runtime.runner.ChunkRunner.readProcessWriteItems(ChunkRunner.java:318)
      at org.jberet.runtime.runner.ChunkRunner.run(ChunkRunner.java:202)
      at org.jberet.runtime.runner.StepExecutionRunner.runBatchletOrChunk(StepExecutionRunner.java:226)
      at org.jberet.runtime.runner.StepExecutionRunner.run(StepExecutionRunner.java:147)
      at org.jberet.runtime.runner.CompositeExecutionRunner.runStep(CompositeExecutionRunner.java:164)
      at org.jberet.runtime.runner.CompositeExecutionRunner.runFromHeadOrRestartPoint(CompositeExecutionRunner.java:88)
      at org.jberet.runtime.runner.JobExecutionRunner.run(JobExecutionRunner.java:60)
      at org.wildfly.extension.batch.jberet.deployment.BatchEnvironmentService$WildFlyBatchEnvironment$1.run(BatchEnvironmentService.java:184)
      at org.wildfly.extension.requestcontroller.RequestController$QueuedTask$1.run(RequestController.java:497)
      at org.jberet.spi.JobExecutor$3.run(JobExecutor.java:161)
      at org.jberet.spi.JobExecutor$1.run(JobExecutor.java:99)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
      at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:320)