MAPTest (and others) failing on Windows

[Andrea Smyth]

I was recently looking into building CXF on HP-UX and came accross a 
problem in relation to non-anonymous replyTo. I found I could work 
around this problem by configuring the http client to use keep-alive 
connections in such a case, and merged a couple of test code changes to 
address the issue http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=551872 
<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=551872>
I had never seen this problem on other platforms before, and was under 
the impression it is specific to HP-UX (hence the conservative "fix") 
until today I am encountering similar problems on Windows.
MAPTest fails intermittently in one or more of its test cases, also with 
a SocketException as can be seen in stack trace below.
The same workaround seems to help here also, (e.g. in MAPTest.java use 
the cxf-hpux.xml instead of cxf.xml when on HP-UX OR Windows), but as I 
know for sure that this test was passing reliably until one or two weeks 
ago (can't be more precise here) I think this needs further 
investigation and have created JIRA for this 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-769
Has anyone else come accross this problem and might have an idea about 
the cause?

Cheers,
Andrea.
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