Additional Notes
Preventing infinite thread exhaustion with HttpClient?
Track: Java
Topic: Networking
Focus: Timeouts and Retries
Java: Timeouts and Retries
Answer
Configure timeouts and use async requests.
Without proper configuration, API outages can cause thread exhaustion in an application if requests are left hanging indefinitely. Using timeouts and asynchronous requests with HttpClient helps manage resources efficiently. For instance, setting both connection and request timeouts ensures that threads are freed even when an external shipping API is down.
Without proper configuration, API outages can cause thread exhaustion in an application if requests are left hanging indefinitely. Using timeouts and asynchronous requests with HttpClient helps manage resources efficiently. For instance, setting both connection and request timeouts ensures that threads are freed even when an external shipping API is down.
Topics: Java Networking Timeouts and Retries