How can you timeout invocation of external endpoints from BPEL

SyncMaxWaitTime setting applies to synchronous process invocations when the process has a breakpoint in the middle of the process. If there are no breakpoints, the entire process will be executed by the client thread. If there is a breakpoint then a new thread will be spawned to continue the processing after the break. For more details, follow the link.

In order to explicitly set the timeout for the endpoints invoked from within the BPEL, use the following reference binding properties to configure timeouts while invoking external services.

<reference name="HWService">
 <interface.wsdl interface="writeHW_ptt">
 <binding.ws port="helloWS">
 <property name="oracle.webservices.httpReadTimeout" type="xs:string" many="false">10000</property>
 <property name="oracle.webservices.httpConnTimeout" type="xs:string" many="false">10000</property>
 </binding.ws>
 </reference>
 

The property "oracle.webservices.httpReadTimeout" specifies how long to wait until the target service processes the request and "oracle.webservices.httpConnTimeout" specifies the wait-time to connect to the external service.

In asynchronous invocations, you may use the Pick action for configuring the invocation timeouts.