Handling timeouts in WebService client

[rohit.macherla]

Hi all,

I have JBoss 4.2.2.GA version installed on a HP Unix machine. We have a WebService, say A, that calls another WebService, say B. When A calls B it usually takes a lot of time, say 3-4 minutes to respond. I would like to know where to configure the timeout value for the WebService client A.

I have increased the Transaction timeout of the transaction-manager MBean to 400 ( I guess it is in seconds). Still we don't find any improvement and we get a transfer-timeout error.

 <!--
 | The fast in-memory transaction manager.
 | Deprecated in JBossAS v4.2. Use JBossTS JTA instead.
 - ->
 <mbean code="org.jboss.tm.TransactionManagerService"
 name="jboss:service=TransactionManager"
 xmbean-dd="resource:xmdesc/TransactionManagerService-xmbean.xml">
 <attribute name="TransactionTimeout">400</attribute>
 <!- - set to false to disable transaction demarcation over IIOP - ->
 <attribute name="GlobalIdsEnabled">true</attribute>
 <depends optional-attribute-name="XidFactory">jboss:service=XidFactory</depends>

 <!- - Transaction Integrity Checking - ->
 <!- - Force a rollback if another thread is associated with the transaction at commit - ->
 <!- - <depends optional-attribute-name="TransactionIntegrityFactory"
 proxy-type="org.jboss.tm.integrity.TransactionIntegrityFactory">
 <mbean code="org.jboss.tm.integrity.FailIncompleteTransaction"
 name="jboss:service=TransactionManager,plugin=TransactionIntegrity"/>
 </depends> - ->
 </mbean>
 -->

 <!-- JBoss Transactions JTA -->
 <mbean code="com.arjuna.ats.jbossatx.jta.TransactionManagerService"
 name="jboss:service=TransactionManager">
 <attribute name="TransactionTimeout">400</attribute>
 <attribute name="ObjectStoreDir">${jboss.server.data.dir}/tx-object-store</attribute>
 </mbean>

Also, since we are developing the code in Java, we have found some of the following properties that are configured in our code :

timeout.TestTimeOut_Service service = new timeout.TestTimeOut_Service();
 timeout.TestTimeOut port = service.getTestTimeOutPort();

((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().
 put("com.sun.xml.ws.request.timeout", 4*60*1000);

 ((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().put(
 BindingProviderProperties.REQUEST_TIMEOUT,
 4*60*1000);

 ((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().put(
 BindingProviderProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT,
 4*60*1000);

 ((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().put(
 "com.ibm.SOAP.requestTimeout",
 4*60*1000);
 ((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().put(
 "org.jboss.webservice.timeout",
 4*60*1000);

 ((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().put(
 "org.jboss.webservice.client.timeout",
 4*60*1000);
 ((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().put(
 "org.jboss.ws.timeout",
 4*60*1000);

where, the "TestTimeOut_Service" is the WebService name and the 'port' object is the WebService Port for the "TestTimeOut_Service". We are using NetBeans for developing. And this code change does not help us in increasing the timeout because the WebService A throws a transfer timeout at about 120 seconds almost always.

Please suggest a proper place where we can set the client timeout when calling other

webservices.

Thanks.

[asoldano]

To setup the client invocation timeout, you have to setup the client timeout property in the request context through your port instance; the timeout will be then be passed to the remoting layer:

((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().put(StubExt.PROPERTY_CLIENT_TIMEOUT, timeout);

[vbatista]

Hi,
Is there any System Property which sets the client timeout?
I have tested my src code with the following line ant it worked:

 ((BindingProvider) soapService).getRequestContext().put(StubExt.PROPERTY_CLIENT_TIMEOUT, new Long(1000));

My problem is that I have an application in production, and it's problematic to make a patch (adding the line above).
Is there any System Property I can add which sets the client timeout?

Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Victor Batista

[rohit.macherla]

Hi,

I am not aware of the system property.
I would just like to add that the following would also work :

((BindingProvider) port).getRequestContext().put(
"org.jboss.ws.timeout",
200 * 1000);

Thanks Alessio Soldano.