The type of databinding cannot account for this delay. I would suggest
to take a thread dump and try to understand where Axis2 is blocking.

Andreas

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 13:04, Bruno Simioni <brunosimi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe using JAXB annotations on Java return objects, you can speed up the
> process.
>
> Bruno.
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Martin Gerner
> <martin.ger...@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm running a simple web service which receives a string from the
>> client, processes it and returns an array of custom objects (nothing
>> complicated, they're just data holders containing a few ints, strings
>> and booleans). While the actual serverside processing performed by my
>> server code is performed very fast, the response times from the server
>> are very large and seem to be linear in the number of returned objects.
>>
>> A short example: if I send a string to the server which results in 0
>> objects being returned, the response from the server is received just a
>> few milliseconds after the request is made. If the string is modified
>> such that it returns one object, that increases to 8 seconds, and if it
>> returns two objects it increases to 16 seconds. In all cases, I can see
>> that the actual processing takes less than a second, so the web service
>> java code that I've deployed is handling the requests quickly.
>>
>> All responses are small in size - the largest is ~900 bytes (so I can't
>> imagine that it's an XML transformation issue). Using packet sniffers, I
>> can see that the delay definitely is occurring on the server side (for
>> the last example, I could see the POST packet going to the server, and
>> then the response packet coming back 16 seconds later). Going by client
>> and server log timings, I can see that the delay occurs after processing
>> rather than before.
>>
>> I'm running axis2 1.5.1 with default settings, have tested it running on
>> both the bundled SimpleAxisServer and Tomcat (both on a Debian server)
>> and am using a very simple client based on code auto-generated by axis
>> from the WSDL (running in Windows).
>>
>> Does anybody here have any clue as to what's causing the delays? It
>> seems clear enough that it's something in the internal axis2 system, but
>> as I'm quite new to axis2 I'm having difficulties locating the issue.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Martin Gerner
>
>

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