Hello, We are experiencing a problem on our production servers causing our HTTP clients to hang. I apologize for cross-posting with Metro forum but this is a critical problem for us.
It looks like client SOAP HTTP requests get dropped/terminated by Tomcat or metro without notifying the client that request was terminated leaving the client waiting indefinitely for response. Here is what we observed: 1. Client makes a SOAP call to the server 2. Tomcat receives HTTP request and we can see it listed on Tomcat Manager page 3. After about 5 minutes HTTP request disappears from the list of active HTTP request 4. The client is still waiting for response We also noticed the following exception logged in catalina.out. It is thrown around the same time when the problem above occurs but we are not sure if there is a direct correlation between them. Aug 1, 2011 12:07:44 AM com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate doGet SEVERE: caught throwable javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: null at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.encode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:112) at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.SOAPBindingCodec.encode(SOAPBindingCodec.java:278) at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.encodePacket(HttpAdapter.java:383) at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.access$100(HttpAdapter.java:93) at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter$HttpToolkit.handle(HttpAdapter.java:529) at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.handle(HttpAdapter.java:288) at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.ServletAdapter.handle(ServletAdapter.java:143) at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate.doGet(WSServletDelegate.java:155) at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletDelegate.doPost(WSServletDelegate.java:189) at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet.doPost(WSServlet.java:76) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:470) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:864) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1665) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: null at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseStreamWriter.finishDocument(BaseStreamWriter.java:1687) at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseStreamWriter.writeEndDocument(BaseStreamWriter.java:585) at com.sun.xml.ws.message.saaj.SAAJMessage.writeTo(SAAJMessage.java:368) at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.encode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:109) ... 24 more Caused by: ClientAbortException: java.io.IOException at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:319) at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.flush(OutputBuffer.java:288) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.flush(CoyoteOutputStream.java:98) at com.ctc.wstx.io.UTF8Writer.flush(UTF8Writer.java:99) at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BufferingXmlWriter.flush(BufferingXmlWriter.java:214) at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BufferingXmlWriter.close(BufferingXmlWriter.java:194) at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseStreamWriter.finishDocument(BaseStreamWriter.java:1685) ... 27 more Caused by: java.io.IOException at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalAprOutputBuffer.flushBuffer(InternalAprOutputBuffer.java:716) at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalAprOutputBuffer.flush(InternalAprOutputBuffer.java:304) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.action(Http11AprProcessor.java:1021) at org.apache.coyote.Response.action(Response.java:183) at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:314) ... 33 more Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Alec --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org