Hi Noah,
Also the CC users_at_glassfish.dev.java.net as you may get more responses  
on that list.
Paul.
On Aug 2, 2010, at 11:32 PM, NBW wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a question about the behavior I am seeing with the http- 
> thread-pool Idle Thread Timeout value. I have a Jersey resource  
> endpoint with receives a call. The resource class looks something  
> like this:
>
> @Path("/myResource")
> @RequestScoped
> public class MyResource {
>
>   @EJB
>    MyEJB  myEJB;
>
>   @POST
>   @Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
>   @Produces("text/plain")
>   public String doSomethingLongRunning(@FormParam("name") final  
> String name) throws DoSomethingLongRunningExeception {
>
>     does some long running task
>
>     return "ok";
>
>   }
> }
>
> So that's the gist of what if going on. Now what I am seeing is that  
> if the long running task takes longer then the value of http-thread- 
> pool Idle Thread Timeout, the thread running this task (an http- 
> thread-pool thread) will receive an InterruptedException.
>
> If this is the intended behavior then calling this value "Idle  
> Thread Timeout" is a bit misleading because the thread being  
> interrupted need not be "idle" for this to happen it just needs to  
> be RUNNING for longer then this timeout value.
>
> -Noah
>
>