Verifying CXF HttpAsyncClient use of use.async.http.conduit contextual property
I am trying to make use of the CXF asynchronous HTTP client transport, through setting the "use.async.http.conduit" property, as detailed in this thread , and recommended by this CXF article . I do that using the following code: Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(wsClient); client.getRequestContext().put("use.async.http.conduit", Boolean.TRUE); As it happens, my web service call is timing out (probably due to some environmental network issue), and my client exception contains (extract): java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java