Timeout for Webservice response?

Question

I have a client that calls a webservice. Partly some of the called methods may take a long time to complete on the server (even up to 1 hour). I want the client to wait for the response for that time, thus keeping the connection alive!

I tried to set the following property within the client, but without success:

((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext().put("com.sun.xml.internal.ws.request.timeout", 0); //0 for disabling any timeouts

I'm still getting Timeout Exception after some time. Which property has to be set to prevent the following error?

org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Transaction was rolled back, presumably because setRollbackOnly was called during a synchronization while invoking public abstract boolean my.method
    at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.createFault(AbstractInvoker.java:166)
    at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.AbstractJAXWSMethodInvoker.createFault(AbstractJAXWSMethodInvoker.java:213)
    at org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.ejb.EjbMethodInvoker.preEjbInvoke(EjbMethodInvoker.java:146)
    at org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.ejb.EjbMethodInvoker.invoke(EjbMethodInvoker.java:72)
    at org.apache.cxf.service.invoker.AbstractInvoker.invoke(AbstractInvoker.java:75)
    at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.ServiceInvokerInterceptor$1.run(ServiceInvokerInterceptor.java:58)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.cxf.workqueue.SynchronousExecutor.execute(SynchronousExecutor.java:37)
    at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.ServiceInvokerInterceptor.handleMessage(ServiceInvokerInterceptor.java:107)
    at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:262)
    at org.apache.cxf.transport.ChainInitiationObserver.onMessage(ChainInitiationObserver.java:121)
    at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.AbstractHTTPDestination.invoke(AbstractHTTPDestination.java:211)
    at org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.CxfWsContainer.onMessage(CxfWsContainer.java:73)
    at org.apache.openejb.server.webservices.WsServlet.service(WsServlet.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:225)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
    at org.apache.tomee.catalina.OpenEJBValve.invoke(OpenEJBValve.java:45)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1001)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:312)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.apache.openejb.core.transaction.TransactionRolledbackException: Transaction was rolled back, presumably because setRollbackOnly was called during a synchronization
    at org.apache.openejb.core.transaction.JtaTransactionPolicy.completeTransaction(JtaTransactionPolicy.java:335)
    at org.apache.openejb.core.transaction.TxRequired.commit(TxRequired.java:75)
    at org.apache.openejb.core.transaction.EjbTransactionUtil.afterInvoke(EjbTransactionUtil.java:73)
    at org.apache.openejb.core.stateless.StatelessContainer._invoke(StatelessContainer.java:258)
    at org.apache.openejb.core.stateless.StatelessContainer.invoke(StatelessContainer.java:190)
    at org.apache.openejb.server.cxf.ejb.EjbMethodInvoker.preEjbInvoke(EjbMethodInvoker.java:119)
    ... 30 more
Caused by: javax.transaction.RollbackException: Unable to commit: transaction marked for rollback
    at org.apache.geronimo.transaction.manager.TransactionImpl.commit(TransactionImpl.java:272)
    at org.apache.geronimo.transaction.manager.TransactionManagerImpl.commit(TransactionManagerImpl.java:252)
    at org.apache.openejb.core.transaction.JtaTransactionPolicy.completeTransaction(JtaTransactionPolicy.java:328)
    ... 35 more
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Transaction has timed out
    at org.apache.geronimo.transaction.manager.TransactionImpl.commit(TransactionImpl.java:266)
    ... 37 more

Solution

Are you sure that this is a client side timeout? Did you configure your server transaction timeout properly?

For client side timeout you need in your cxf configuration:

<http-conf:conduit name="*.http-conduit">
    <http-conf:client ConnectionTimeout="your connection timeout" ReceiveTimeout="your receive timeout"/>
</http-conf:conduit>

Timeouts are expressed in milliseconds.

In Java code you need get the HTTPConduit and then set HTTPClientPolicy:

see from http://cxf.apache.org/docs/client-http-transport-including-ssl-support.html

  import org.apache.cxf.endpoint.Client;
  import org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy;
  import org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit;
  import org.apache.cxf.transports.http.configuration.HTTPClientPolicy;
  ...

  URL wsdl = getClass().getResource("wsdl/greeting.wsdl");
  SOAPService service = new SOAPService(wsdl, serviceName);
  Greeter greeter = service.getPort(portName, Greeter.class);

  // Okay, are you sick of configuration files ?
  // This will show you how to configure the http conduit dynamically
  Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(greeter);
  HTTPConduit http = (HTTPConduit) client.getConduit();

  HTTPClientPolicy httpClientPolicy = new HTTPClientPolicy();

  httpClientPolicy.setConnectionTimeout(your connection timeout); 
  httpClientPolicy.setAllowChunking(false);
  httpClientPolicy.setReceiveTimeout(your receive timeout);

  http.setClient(httpClientPolicy);

  ...
  greeter.sayHi("Hello");

Update

For your java.lang.ClassCastException make sure that com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SEIStub is not in classpath or ensure that cxf jar is before Sun's jaxws RI jar in the classpath. For example try removing jaxws-rt*.jar from your classpath.

Comments

[membersound]

Where do I have to place this?? I have not config file for my webservice. Just an annotation, like @WebService( portName =.. , serviceName =.. , targetNamespace =.. , endpointInterface =.. )

[membersound]

so I do not have any cxf config as using javax.jws.WebService;

[membersound]

java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SEIStub cannot be cast to org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy.getClient(ClientProxy.ja‌​va:121) at Myclass.getWebservice(Config.java:58) at Client.connect(Client.java:37) at Client.main(ApplicationRunner.java:28)

[membersound]

Hm for the cxf config I would have to use spring right? This is not possible atm. Concerning class loading issue: strange thing is that it occures on [i]client[/i] side! So without any server loading involved...

[Luca]

Did you try instantiating service with my provided example taken from cxf website?

[membersound]

Yes I tried exactly this. I had already parts of it like URL, create service, getPort. So I just added the Client stuff.

[membersound]

If I include ALL libs from my webserver (tomee) within the client program: it works without exception! But these are > 100 libs. How can I identify which library fixes this?

[membersound]

I got it working by adding ~20 libs to my client. Thare are almost all cxf libs + neethi + stax2 + wsdl4j + xmlschema-core. I don't know why I need all those libs, but I tracked it down to the minimum required libs I do not get an exception in any way. With these libs it works as in your example taken from cxf.apache. Thanks for your help!

[membersound]

Maybe you are right and it is really not a client side problem. How would I configure the server side transaction timeout?

[Jaikrat]

You know how to make it indefinite. I tried commenting setReceiveTimeout but that did not work.