Persistent Connection : Sping-ws Client

[Samuel Jason]

Hello Friends,

I am using a spring-ws client to invoke a web service in two way ssl mode. I need to make sure that I don't end up creating a new connection everytime - instead I re-use connections.
I did some re-search and found that by default HTTP 1.1 always makes persistent http(s) connections. Is that true?

Do I need any piece of code in my client to ensure connections are persistent? How can I check if the connections are persistent or if a new connection is being created vereytime I send a new request ?

Below is my sping context xml:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd     http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-3.0.xsd">

	<bean id="messageFactory" class="org.springframework.ws.soap.saaj.SaajSoapMessageFactory"/>
	<bean id="webServiceTemplate" class="org.springframework.ws.client.core.WebServiceTemplate">
  		<constructor-arg ref="messageFactory"/>
		<property name="marshaller" ref="jaxb2Marshaller" />
		<property name="unmarshaller" ref="jaxb2Marshaller" />
  		<property name="messageSender" ref="httpSender" />
	</bean>
	
	<bean id="httpSender" class="org.springframework.ws.transport.http.CommonsHttpMessageSender">
	</bean>

	<oxm:jaxb2-marshaller id="jaxb2Marshaller" contextPath="com.nordstrom.direct.oms.webservices.addressval" />

	<bean id="Client" class="test.ClientStub">
		  <property name="webServiceTemplate" ref="webServiceTemplate" /> 
   </bean>
</beans>