It became a moot point -- I switched to using Tomcat and Axis and the problem went away for whatever reason.
Thanks, Joe -----Original Message----- From: Scott Nichol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 9:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SOAPException -- too many connections problem I am afraid I cannot be of much help, since the exception is thrown from a class authored by Oracle (oracle.soap.transport.http.OracleSOAPHTTPConnection) for which I do not have source. However, given the underlying socket error that is throwing the exception, the error may be a problem in the native code implementing java.net.Socket. What JDK version are you using for the client? Have/can you try a different one?