title: Axis2 1.5.1 connections management
body: <p>HttpConnections where not being used efficiently by our code using Axis2 1.5.1 project. By setting a certain limit of max connections per host and stressing the application, responsiveness was not the good I expected according the intentional limits and sometimes connections got stucked indefinitly, so the available connections were each time less till reaching the point that none request was attended by the application.</p>
  
  <p>Configuration:</p>
  
  <pre><code>MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager connManager = new MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager();
  HttpConnectionManagerParams connectionManagerParams = connManager.getParams();
  connectionManagerParams.setMaxTotalConnections(httpMaxConnections);
  connectionManagerParams.setDefaultMaxConnectionsPerHost(httpMaxConnectionsPerHost);
  
  HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(connManager);
  
  ConfigurationContext axisContext;
  try {
      axisContext = ConfigurationContextFactory.createDefaultConfigurationContext();
  } catch (Exception e) {
      throw new AxisFault(e.getMessage());
  }
  
  axisContext.setProperty(HTTPConstants.CACHED_HTTP_CLIENT, httpClient);
  
  service = new MyStub(axisContext, url);
  
  ServiceClient serviceClient = service._getServiceClient();
  
  serviceClient.getOptions().setProperty(HTTPConstants.CONNECTION_TIMEOUT, httpConnectionTimeout);
  serviceClient.getOptions().setProperty(HTTPConstants.SO_TIMEOUT, httpReadTimeout);
  serviceClient.getOptions().setProperty(HTTPConstants.REUSE_HTTP_CLIENT, Constants.VALUE_TRUE);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, as you can see, we're defining max. connections and timeouts.</p>
  
  <p>I have a workaround I will share, hoping to help somebody under hurries as I was. I'll mark my answer as the good one a few days later if there isn't any better answer from experts.</p>