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How to Update Oracle SOA 11g Timeouts by Sebastian Marucci

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Imagine your SOA/BPM application is consuming a service (internal or third party) that takes more than 5 minutes to reply, which is more than the default JTA timeout. What would happen in this situation? The result is a faulted instance.

Last month at a Oracle BPM project, we faced a similar situation. After doing some research, we realized that not only do you have to update the EJBs or JTA timeouts, but there are also several other timeouts to tweak. In fact, six different timeouts need to be updated. Five of them related to the Oracle SOA Suite, plus the DB timeout. Here’s an overview of the 6 timeouts that we had to update and how to do so!

Web Service binding timeout

First, you need to identify all composites involved with the long-running service. This will include the composites where the service is called, and the composites calling these composites. Then, in each composite go to the source view and add the following properties to the web service binding (tag <binding.ws/>): Read the complete article here.

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