Calling a spring service concurrently

I posted a message in the Spring Web Services forum but haven't heard back so I thought I would take a different approach and ask a more generalized question here.

Basically I have a requirement to parse a file that contains about 5,000 records and for each record, call a web service. I would like to use Spring WS for calling the SOAP service. Since each request can take up to 2 minutes to get a response back, I would like to make the service calls concurrently.

So my initial thought was to create a multi-threaded service that calls the Spring WS service, so that I can run them concurrently. Is that a good approach? Just looking for design ideas.

We are using Spring2.x and JDK1.5.

Thanks much-

I answered my own question. For those interested:

http://forum.springsource.org/showth...874#post332874

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