JBoss ESB fails to deliver message to service due to intermittent 'SocketException: Connection reset'

Issue

• Errors in SOA application log

• See errors in application:

  ERROR [com.example.soa.actions.PipelineInitializationAction] (pool-152-thread-1) Handling exception:
  org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.ActionProcessingException: Error delivering message to service 'MyESBService:PerformActionService'
      at org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.SyncServiceInvoker.process(SyncServiceInvoker.java:86)
      at com.example.soa.actions.DoActionServiceInvokerAction.process(DoActionServiceInvokerAction.java:412)
      at org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.message.ActionProcessingPipeline.processPipeline(ActionProcessingPipeline.java:667)
      ...
  Caused by: org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.ActionProcessingException: problem processing HTTP I/O: Connection reset
      at org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.routing.http.HttpRouter.process(HttpRouter.java:174)
      at org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.soap.proxy.HttpSOAPProxyTransport.process(HttpSOAPProxyTransport.java:130)
      at org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.soap.proxy.SOAPProxy.process(SOAPProxy.java:412)
      at com.example.soa.actions.SOAPProxyAction.process(SOAPProxyAction.java:217)
      ...
  Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
      at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:168)
      at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(InputRecord.java:293)
      ...
  

• Messages fail to be delivered due to Connection reset errors