This sounds like a good candidate for JMS.
>From: Marco Pas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Marco Pas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: EJB container, back office systems and sockets
>Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:10:54 +0100
>
>13:05 / 6-3-2001
>
>
> In our application (running on WL 5.1 Servicepack 8) we have to access
>a remote
> machine via a socket connection, this to retrieve remote data.
> I know this is not in the specs but we have to do so !
>
> When the remote machine is ok the socket connection is accepted
> very quickly. But when the remote system is ofline it takes about 2
> minutes to get an answer back from the socket. (a timeout occurs)
>
> If i have a lot of requests this fills all my available threads on
> waiting back-office systems.
>
> Does anyone know how to tackle this problem, i want to check if the
> remote system is alive and capable of answering !
>
> regards,
> Marco Pas
>
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