31.4.4. Time outs and the JMS bridge

There is a possibility that the target or source server will not be available at some point in time. If this occurs then the bridge will try Max Retries to reconnect every Failure Retry Interval milliseconds as specified in the JMS Bridge definition.

However since a third party JNDI is used, in this case the JBoss naming server, it is possible for the JNDI lookup to hang if the network were to disappear during the JNDI lookup. To stop this occurring the JNDI definition can be configured to time out if this occurs. To do this set the jnp.timeout and the jnp.sotimeout on the Initial Context definition. The first sets the connection timeout for the initial connection and the second the read timeout for the socket.

If you implement your own factories for looking up JMS resources then you will have to bear in mind timeout issues.