Application Hangs when a large amount of data is returned

Our application is hanging when attempting to use a third party web service. This doesn't happen when the amount of data returned from the service is small, only when 1000 or pieces of data are returned.

Code that is run:

Code:

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        Source requestSource = new ResourceSource(request);
        StringResult result = new StringResult();
        getWebServiceTemplate().sendSourceAndReceiveToResult(requestSource, new SoapActionCallback("http://app.publicaster.com/MailingList_Get_EntireList"), result);           
        System.out.println("completed...");

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What I am seeing in the logs via log4j.logger.org.springframework.ws=DEBUG

Code:

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<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
        <SOAP-ENV:Header/>
        <SOAP-ENV:Body>
                <ns2:MailingList_Get_EntireList xmlns:ns2="http://app.publicaster.com/">
                        <ns2:AccountID>123</ns2:AccountID>
                        <ns2:ListID>12674</ns2:ListID>
                        <ns2:LastID>12674</ns2:LastID>
                        <ns2:pageSize>2000</ns2:pageSize>
                </ns2:MailingList_Get_EntireList>
        </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
        <soap:Body>
                <MailingList_Get_EntireListResponse xmlns="http://app.publicaster.com/">
                        <MailingList_Get_EntireListResult>
                                <AccountID>123</AccountID>
                                <ListID>12674</ListID>
                                <LastID>295</LastID>
                                <TotalListSize>1150</TotalListSize>
                                <ListDetail>
                                        <NewDataSet>
                                          <Table>
                                                <Email>jsmith@923904820.com</Email>
                                                <Full_Name>John Smith</Full_Name>
                                                <Company>Test Company - Stage</Company>
                                                <Address1>9382 Lane</Address1>
                                                <City>Burlington</City>
                                                <State>IL</State>
                                                <Zip>60109</Zip>
                                                <Phone>111-111-1111</Phone>
                                                <ID>4304470</ID>
                                          </Table>
                                          <Table>
                                                <Email>keith@keith.com</Email>
                                                <Full_Name>Keith Walter</Full_Name>
                                                <Company>Test Company - Stage</Company>
                                                <Address1>9382 Street</Address1>
                                                <City>Burlington</City>
                                                <State>IL</State>
                                                <Zip>60109</Zip>
                                                <Phone>111-111-1111</Phone>
                                                <ID>4304471</ID>
                                          </Table>
                                                ...... 1000+ more pieces of data
                                        </NewDataSet>
                                </ListDetail>
                        </MailingList_Get_EntireListResult>
                </MailingList_Get_EntireListResponse>
        </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

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Pasted below is a stack trace of where I think the app is hanging.

Code:

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Message1_1Impl.getSOAPPart() line: 80 <-- hangs here
Saaj13Implementation.getEnvelope(SOAPMessage) line: 168
SaajSoapMessage.getEnvelope() line: 82
SaajSoapMessage(AbstractSoapMessage).getSoapBody() line: 36
SaajSoapMessage(AbstractSoapMessage).getPayloadSource() line: 46
WebServiceTemplate$SourceExtractorMessageExtractor.extractData(WebServiceMessage) line: 581
WebServiceTemplate.sendAndReceive(String, WebServiceMessageCallback, WebServiceMessageExtractor) line: 408
WebServiceTemplate.doSendAndReceive(String, Transformer, Source, WebServiceMessageCallback, SourceExtractor) line: 350
WebServiceTemplate.sendSourceAndReceiveToResult(String, Source, WebServiceMessageCallback, Result) line: 296
WebServiceTemplate.sendSourceAndReceiveToResult(Source, WebServiceMessageCallback, Result) line: 287
EchoClient.echo() line: 33 <-- where our code passes things off to Spring

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The System.out.println("completed..."); never gets hit.

Any thoughts on this one?

Thanks in advance,

Keith

Well it looks like you are using SAAJ to build the SOAP messages. With large messages, SAAJ can be inefficient. You might consider using AXIOM. Look here for more information. Beware that you don't gain the benefit unless you turn turn payloadCaching to false. This means it reads each piece of the message only once. So you cannot use PayloadLoggingInterceptor and the like. At least that is what I have read. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

You are right :). Also, disable the debug logging, because that dumps the message as well.

In 1.0.2, there will be a new logger category for message tracing (org.springframework.ws.client.MessageTracing) to make it easier to disable/enable.

Thanks for your help, it works great now.

Keith