transaction timeout not working on hibernate with oracle

Answer 1

The timeout needs to be set before the transaction is started.

instead of

tran = dbSession.beginTransaction();
tran.setTimeout(10);// 10 seconds

try

tran = dbSession.getTransaction();
tran.setTimeout(10);
tran.begin();

Answer 2

you can see that

http://community.jboss.org/wiki/TransactionTimeout