Hello - I was wondering if any discoveries have been made on this post. I had attempted similar code in the 3.0.2 GA release of jbossws and also could not get the timeout to occur. Really, what is needed is to have the socket throw and exception if the response does not come back in an acceptable time frame. Thank you for any help and it would be greatly appreciated. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4165981#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...