How to set timeout in Spring WebServiceTemplate

Question

I am using org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate for making Web Service calls. How can i configure timeout for the call.

Answer 1

This article will probably sort you out: http://onebyteatatime.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/how-to-set-socket-timeout-using-spring-webservicetemplate/

The way I have it implemented, I define my WebServiceTemplate to use CommonsHttpMessageSender:

Then, in code, I get the messageSender and set the timeout on it. You could equally do this in your xml.

CommonsHttpMessageSender messageSender = (CommonsHttpMessageSender)webServiceTemplate.getMessageSenders()[0];
messageSender.getHttpClient().getParams().setSoTimeout(timeoutMillis);