Hi all, first of all, turns out that my experiment with 1000 miliseconds did not work (the exception I got came due to another reason). I looked inside the code of JBoss-Remoting 1.4.4 and found out that in SocketClientInvoker.java the constant SO_TIMEOUT_FLAG is now defined as: public static final String SO_TIMEOUT_FLAG = "timeout"; so the parameter that should be used as written in previous posts at this thread is not "socketTimeout" but "timeout" (in JBOSS 4.0.5) I tested this on windows XP with setting the value to 5 seconds and it worked. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3996100#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...