In the ATM example, the jBPM scheduler is configured to poll for new timers every 120 seconds. You can specify the polling interval in web.xml. Please refer to the user guide for details. Note that the responseTimeout value only defines the time jBPM BPEL will wait for a response to come back in the internal queue. The socket timeout value is defined by the client. JAX-RPC devises no portable way to set the client timeout. In JBoss, you can cast the dynamic proxy to javax.xml.rpc.Stub and set the "org.jboss.webservice.client.timeout" property to an Integer value of your choice. Under JBoss 4.0.4.GA and later versions, the property name "org.jboss.ws.timeout" is preferred over "org.jboss.webservice.client.timeout" to set the timeout property. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979478#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...