WebSphere Spring Apache CXF SOAP WebService Client timeout not working

Question

I need to configure a SOAP WebService client with certain timeout values for connection attempts and service invocations.

The WS client is a jar dependency generated using the WSDL with Maven cxf-codegen-plugin. I use this client jar in my web app as a maven dependency and invoke the service operations.

So my webapp pom contains:

<dependency>
    <groupId>my.web.service</groupId>
    <artifactId>web-service-client-jar</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
</dependency>

along with the Apache CXF dependencies:

<!-- CXF dependencies -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
    <artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
    <version>${cxf.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
    <artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
    <version>${cxf.version}</version>
</dependency>

And I have defined below spring configuration to setup timeouts which does not work..

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:http-conf="http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/configuration/http-conf.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/core http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/core.xsd">

 <http-conf:conduit name="*.http-conduit">
    <http-conf:client ConnectionTimeout="20000" ReceiveTimeout="10000" />
</http-conf:conduit>

<cxf:bus>
    <cxf:outInterceptors>
        <ref bean="fileuploadlogOutbound" />
    </cxf:outInterceptors>
</cxf:bus>

<!-- Outbound Message Logging -->
<bean id="fileuploadlogOutbound" class="test.logging.MyLoggingOutInterceptor">
    <property name="prettyLogging" value="true" />
</bean>

But to my confusion, the outInterceptors defined for pretty logging works fine. Hence, I doubt if my configuration has any errors or not. FYI I'm trying to get this working in WebSphere 8.5 environment.

This is how I instantiate the WS Client in spring:

<jaxws:client id="documentUploadServiceJaxwsClient"
    serviceClass="org.tempuri.IDocumentUploadService" address="#serviceEndpointString" >

    <jaxws:binding>
        <soap:soapBinding version="1.2" mtomEnabled="true" />
    </jaxws:binding>
</jaxws:client>

Is there any steps missing in Spring config or do I need to look into WebSphere 8.5 specific configuration which will enforce HTTP/SOAP connection & response timeouts?

Dinusha Kariyawasam Dinusha Kariyawasam · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-23T03:40:59

I figured out that my CXF configuration mentioned above works fine but the WAS environment where the application deployed is actually overriding any config you define at the application level. Hence, I followed this link to copy and define custom HTTP Transport policy where you can set values for below timeouts.

Read timeout
Write timeout
Connection timeout

WebSphere Spring Apache CXF SOAP WebService Client timeout not working

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