Is there a way to handle SOAP requests asynchronously in a JAX-WS web service?
Issue
- Does JBoss provide any supported way to handle SOAP requests in an asynchronous manner (long poll) without callbacks?
- I would like to pause the processing of a message and resume it when an external system is ready. But I would not want to lock up the request thread but rather send the response back from some other thread when the processing is done.
- I have external clients calling using HTTP (most likely SOAP) and this request could take 1-2 seconds to complete so I would prefer not to lock the incoming thread but rather use NIO and return a response when it is ready (from some other thread).
- JAX-RS 2.0 has this type of syntax, i.e.
@Suspendedthat returns the response from some other thread and releasing the request thread. But I am probably stuck with SOAP and the server is not JavaEE 7 compatible in any case. - It should also be possible to do this a raw servlet and
startAsync(), but then I would have to invent the SOAP part.
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 6.x
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