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RMI Timeout between Servers but not for Client

I found this question where one of the answer introduce the JVM pameter sun.rmi.transport.tcp.responseTimeout . I know that's an obvious/stupid question, but can someone explain me how to set it in details (usually I don't set these JVM parameters).

Anyway, the most important problem would not get resolved: I'm introducing this timeout in a Distributed System since I need it for communication between Servers. In othere words, if a Server1 calls a remote method of Server2 and the timeout elapses, then the Server2 is considered lost by the Server1. This timeout is shorter than the one used from a Client to consider a Server down.

So I need two different timeouts: one for RMI between Servers and one from Client to Server.

Solution

  • You set it at whichever JVM is going to be the RMI client in the situation, either via the command line or System.setProperty(), just like any other system property.