With the servlet transport, there is no conflict with jbossweb port (8080) because a servlet is used with the connector http. With the socket transport, the connections remain open when using the parameters 'invokerDestructionDelay' (client side) and 'timeout' (server side) . With the servlet or http transport, the socket connections are immediately closed by the client after each call. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4160106#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...