Trying to set a connection/read timeout in a WS client… can’t and found this post? Welcome to the club.
Does ANYONE OUT THERE have a proven, easy to implement, somewhat universal way, to simple set connect and read timeouts for JAX-WS web-service clients? I can’t seem to find them, and neither can tons of others out there by the looks for dozens of posts/blogs I have read in forums etc.
This is one of the most insidious problems with an application. Timeouts, or the lack thereof causing a thread in your application to mysteriously (or not) hang up sitting there forever. Is my app deadlocked? Why is this thread hung? Then after a while your app’s thread pool may be exhausted etc leading to harder to diagnose and worthless artifact error symptoms being spewed into a log file.
In an enterprise app, one of the common things we do is use a web-service to send or receive data from some other application out there… and a lot of people use some sort of JAX-WS generated variant of clients.
Here is my question. HOW can I reliably set a jax-ws client timeout for both connect and read operations? I seem to see various answers to this, often time they don’t work for folks. Other times I suspect folks are getting confused with regards to the actual JAX-WS client implementation executing their code (jboss, glassfish, websphere etc).. and I guess these settings vary based on where you code is deployed, which is SUPER convenient because there is not abstract definition of this in the spec itself to allow developers to specify their timeouts in a portable way??
Hey Oracle: Why can’t Java just support a simple solution to this stupid time-wasting problem?? @see Axis clients and how easy it is to do there!
PLEASE POST YOUR SOLUTIONS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THIS POST TO HELP OTHERS (and me!)
Here are some examples I’ve seen out there of threads that have random answers that often go unanswered.
http://www.coderanch.com/t/537394/Web-Services/java/JBoss-Jax-ws-Timeout-Configuration
https://community.jboss.org/message/607864
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3130913/setting-jax-ws-client-timeout
http://www.java.net/node/676074
http://www.websphere-world.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2058
http://chamerling.org/2009/09/23/setting-timeout-on-generated-jaxws-cxf-clients/
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1666087
