WebSphere Spring Apache CXF SOAP WebService Client timeout not working - spring

Question

I need to configure a SOAP WebService client with certain timeout values for connection attempts and service invocations.
The WS client is a jar dependency generated using the WSDL with Maven cxf-codegen-plugin. I use this client jar in my web app as a maven dependency and invoke the service operations.
So my webapp pom contains:
<dependency>
<groupId>my.web.service</groupId>
<artifactId>web-service-client-jar</artifactId>
<version>x.x.x</version>
</dependency>
along with the Apache CXF dependencies:
<!-- CXF dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
<version>${cxf.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
<version>${cxf.version}</version>
</dependency>
And I have defined below spring configuration to setup timeouts which does not work..
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:http-conf="http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/configuration/http-conf.xsd http://cxf.apache.org/core http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/core.xsd">
<http-conf:conduit name="*.http-conduit">
<http-conf:client ConnectionTimeout="20000" ReceiveTimeout="10000" />
</http-conf:conduit>
<cxf:bus>
<cxf:outInterceptors>
<ref bean="fileuploadlogOutbound" />
</cxf:outInterceptors>
</cxf:bus>
<!-- Outbound Message Logging -->
<bean id="fileuploadlogOutbound" class="test.logging.MyLoggingOutInterceptor">
<property name="prettyLogging" value="true" />
</bean>
But to my confusion, the outInterceptors defined for pretty logging works fine. Hence, I doubt if my configuration has any errors or not. FYI I'm trying to get this working in WebSphere 8.5 environment.
This is how I instantiate the WS Client in spring:
<jaxws:client id="documentUploadServiceJaxwsClient"
serviceClass="org.tempuri.IDocumentUploadService" address="#serviceEndpointString" >
<jaxws:binding>
<soap:soapBinding version="1.2" mtomEnabled="true" />
</jaxws:binding>
</jaxws:client>
Is there any steps missing in Spring config or do I need to look into WebSphere 8.5 specific configuration which will enforce HTTP/SOAP connection & response timeouts?

Answer 1

I figured out that my CXF configuration mentioned above works fine but the WAS environment where the application deployed is actually overriding any config you define at the application level. Hence, I followed this link to copy and define custom HTTP Transport policy where you can set values for below timeouts.
Read timeout
Write timeout
Connection timeout