SOAP call taking a long time to return back to client

You have scenario where in you are calling a BPEL/ESB service which in turn in interacting with a legacy system to a CRM.

BPEL and ESB process are deployed on your oc4j container.

When you call the BPEL/ESB service from an external client(java clinet/soap ui)

you get a response very late.This issue mainly occurs for large payloads more than 5MB.

This is a bug in the web service framework

The issue occurs because the web service framework is inefficiently marshaling the soap message into XML for large size messages.Hence the provider framework is taking more time to return the response to the client.


To overcome this issue you need to apply patch 9371120