Seam 1.2.1 GA batch processing timeout issue

[soza]

Seam : 1.2.1 GA
App server: Websphere 6.1
Components: POJO

Here's the problem we have...

- A web service gives us a list of items
- We iterate through the list (usually about 20,000)
- Execute a method to persist the data from the web service

Problem:
Transaction time out (default app server time out is 2 mins, which we cannot change)

Alternative problems
- We have to use the web service which produces 20,000 odd items
- We also want to reuse the code that uses the ORM solution for persistence (JPA/hibernate)
- Reluctance to use an asyn approach

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[pmuir]

Try

org.jboss.seam.util.Transactions.getUserTransaction().setTransactionTimeout(1000000);