problem with axis client stub timeout

Question

Hi,

I am writing an application which uses web services to connect a remote server.I have written a method to ping function to determine if the server is online or not(i.e. its providing the web services which can be accessed using host:port).I am executing a simple web service with a 2 sec timeout(available as an option in stub class before I make the call).Ideally the call should return within 2 seconds allowing me to ascertain whether the server is up or down.However in certain cases it takes far longer than 2 seconds.

Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening?Is there a way to ensure that the timeout value is honored ?

Thanks, Fell

Answer 1

Don't use the default http sender, switch to commons http client based sender. Details are here - http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis/AxisCommonsHTTP - Same page has details on how to set various kinds of timeouts as well.