8 Replies Latest reply on Sep 9, 2013 9:19 AM by asoldano

Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

adinn Sep 1, 2010 5:05 AM

I have been playing with using an RPC MEP to drive transaction completion in the XTS client code. Previously the implementation employed two one way messages, a Commit from the client to the completion services followed by a Comitted or Aborted from the completion service back to the client. Switching to an RPC MEP has the significant advantage that the client does not need to expose a service endpoint.

I now have a working prototype version of the RPC based service but I find that I am hostage to the timeout behaviour of the underlying JaxWS RPC exchange. The transaction completion service may take a long time to implement the termination trequest because it may need to negotiate with a plethora of distributed web services first to prepare them and then to complete them. So, even though the service host is alive and busy processing the request (hence should be able to retain an open TCP connection or answer UDP based pings) my client may time out the request.

I would like to be able to configure my own timeout for the completion request, probably so that it does not actually time out. I found the following thread explaining how to configure the timeout for a WS-Native JaxWS port

http://community.jboss.org/message/334623#334623

This is fine if you are using Native. However, my code needs both to compile and run using either CXF or Native.

Is there also a way of configuring the timeout in JBossWS-CXF?
Is there a way of doing this so it runs on either stack
Is there a way of doing this so it compiles on either stack?

Ok, one final request (althoguh it is probably a long shot)

It would be useful if this configuration option were defined in the JaxWS standard. Is there any chance of this?

1. Re: Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

asoldano Sep 1, 2010 7:35 AM (in response to adinn)
Is there also a way of configuring the timeout in JBossWS-CXF?

You need to use what CXF provides; you can do this by properly setting the bus in advance (see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CXF20DOC/Client+HTTP+Transport+%28including+SSL+support%29 , basically you need to tune the client http conduit) or directly configuring you client using the cxf api:

Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(proxy); ((ClientImpl)client).setSynchronousTimeout(90 * 1000); //90 secs

Is there a way of doing this so it runs on either stack

Not ATM, I've just created https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBWS-3114 , scheduled for the 3.4.0 (the first version coming out)

It would be useful if this configuration option were defined in the JaxWS standard. Is there any chance of this?
We can think about a proposal, just having a standard prop for that would probably be a good start...
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2. Re: Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

adinn Sep 1, 2010 10:43 AM (in response to asoldano)

Alessio Soldano wrote:

You need to use what CXF provides; you can do this by properly setting the bus in advance (see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CXF20DOC/Client+HTTP+Transport+%28including+SSL+support%29 , basically you need to tune the client http conduit) or directly configuring you client using the cxf api:
Ok, thanks Alessio. I will leave that to my users to do just for now as the use fo an RPC termination protocol is primarily for use with a standalone XTS client running outside the AS. But thanks for the tip.

I've just created https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBWS-3114 , scheduled for the 3.4.0 (the first version coming out)
Excellent. I'll probably be the first to use it when it arrives.
It would be useful if this configuration option were defined in the JaxWS standard. Is there any chance of this?
We can think about a proposal, just having a standard prop for that would probably be a good start...
Ok, that's great. I'd rather have everything we rely on be standardised. We can treat JBWS-3114 as an excuse to investigate a standard model for achieving this. I'll attach any ideas I have to that JIRA.
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3. Re: Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

jim.ma Sep 17, 2010 4:49 AM (in response to adinn)

Hi Andrew,
I've added this two properties "javax.xml.ws.client.connectionTimeout", "javax.xml.ws.client.receiveTimeout" to cxf and native stack for the stack agnostic timeout configuration:
public void testConfigureTimeout() throws Exception
{
//Set timeout until a connection is established
((BindingProvider) port).getRequestContext().
          put("javax.xml.ws.client.connectionTimeout", "6000");
//Set timeout until the response is received
((BindingProvider) port).getRequestContext().
          put("javax.xml.ws.client.receiveTimeout", "1000");
   String response = port.echo("testTimeout");
   System.out.prinltn("Received response : response");
}
This should be included in the 3.4.0 release. Let us know if you have any other problems.
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4. Re: Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

adinn Sep 17, 2010 7:36 AM (in response to adinn)
Hi Jim,

Thanks for the fix. I'll upgrade my code in advance so that it starts to work as soon as your fix goes in.

I still have two questions regarding the behaviour:

What are the units for the timeout (looks like milliseconds?)
Is there a value which specifies no timeout (e.g. 0)

regards,

Andrew Dinn
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5. Re: Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

jim.ma Sep 20, 2010 7:23 AM (in response to adinn)

1. What are the units for the timeout (looks like milliseconds?)
       Yes. The units are milliseconds.
2. Is there a value which specifies no timeout (e.g. 0)
       Set the timeout to "0" will the infinite/no timeout.
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6. Re: Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

asoldano Sep 30, 2010 12:51 PM (in response to asoldano)

Additional related issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-3011
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7. Re: Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

gerardce Aug 12, 2013 8:40 AM (in response to jim.ma)

Hi Jim,

The two properties "javax.xml.ws.client.connectionTimeout" and "javax.xml.ws.client.receiveTimeout" are not JAXWS standard properties (regarding to spec 2.2 §4.2.1.1). There are CXF legacy properties.
So why did you named them "javax.xxx" ? Spec2.2 § 4.2.1.2 says :
"Implementations MAY define additional implementation
specific properties not listed in table 4.1. The java.* and javax.* namespaces are reserved for use by Java
specifications."

Regards,

Cédric
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8. Re: Is there a way to set a JaxWS connection timeout which works for CXF and Native

asoldano Sep 9, 2013 9:19 AM (in response to gerardce)

Good catch, thanks. Created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-5261
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