EJB Timeout

I am calling a method on a Stateless Session Bean which is not in a transaction. Is there a way to timeout this method call if the client doesnot receive the response in the specified time interval?
I am using Weblogic 6.1 sp4.
Thanks in advance.
Prasad

I don understand why do you need this feature. If the server is not available it is going to throw execption anyway.

Maybe the operation has shorter timeout than the RMI call normally would have? If you can't figure out any other solution, you could just launch a thread for calling the session bean and block in the original thread until the call-thread signals a response or the original thread decides enough time has passed and returns/throws an error to its own caller. It's dirty but it usually works.

This was a duplicate. Sorry. (Can't delete this post right now...)
[ August 07, 2003: Message edited by: Lasse Koskela ]

Originally posted by Guruprasad Kateel:
I am calling a method on a Stateless Session Bean which is not in a transaction. Is there a way to timeout this method call if the client doesnot receive the response in the specified time interval?
I am using Weblogic 6.1 sp4.
Thanks in advance.
Prasad

You may have to take a look at Timer service in EJB 2.1 (but WLS 6.1 is based on 2.0 ???). This article could be a good starting point
http://www.theserverside.com/resources/articles/MonsonHaefel-Column4/article.html

Vinod,
The timer service is entriely different from timeout requirement of Gurruprasad.

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Vinod,
The timer service is entriely different from timeout requirement of Gurruprasad.

Yes, I am wrong .. I was mislead by the "Timer" ...