Java RMI - Client Timeout

Question

I\'m building a Distributed System using Java RMI and it must support a server loss.

If my client is connected to a Server using RMI, if this server goes down (cable

Answer 1

I recently encountered this problem as well and found that I needed to set the following Java property in order for an RMI call to timeout on the client side:

sun.rmi.transport.tcp.responseTimeout

Here is the full scoop on these params in newer versions of Java:

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/rmi/sunrmiproperties.html
• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/rmi/sunrmiproperties.html