Can't get a timeout

Question

Hello.
This is for an assignment for school. We have to implement at 3-tier system, namely a client, an application server and dataservers. The client uses a remote method (available through the appserver), and the appserver then contacts all the dataservers for the data it needs.
I'm trying to take control of the timeouts that should occur when making calls throughout the system.
When creating the registry i do as follow:
(This is done in my dataservers, and as such, the RMIClientSocketFactory used in the call, is called dataServerSocketFactory)
LocateRegistry.createRegistry(51673,conf.dataServerSocketFactory,conf.serverSocketFactory);Where the two factories are defined as such:
public RMIClientSocketFactory dataServerSocketFactory = new RMIClientSocketFactory() {
          public int dataServerTimeOut = 100;
          public final Socket createSocket(String host, int port) throws IOException {
               Socket clientSocket = new Socket(host,port);
               clientSocket.setSoTimeout(dataServerTimeOut);
               clientSocket.setSoLinger(false,0);
               return clientSocket;
public RMIServerSocketFactory serverSocketFactory = new RMIServerSocketFactory() {
     public int serverSocketTimeOut = 100;
     public ServerSocket createServerSocket(int port) throws IOException {
          ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(port);
          serverSocket.setSoTimeout(serverSocketTimeOut);
          return serverSocket;
};To let my client hook up to the register, I use:
Registry registry = LocateRegistry.getRegistry("localhost",51673,conf.clientSocketFactory);
appStub = (IAppServer) registry.lookup("AppServer");And likewise for my appserver.
Now, to provoke the timeout, i'm trying to hold back one of the dataservers returns. Aka, i'm waiting for input by the user (via console) on one of the dataservers, before I let it return with the data needed by the appserver. But nothing happens - i'm expecting a timeout in the appserver class (because this is the class which uses the dataservers), but it just waits - nothing happens.
I'm not too experienced with RMI, so any help is appreciated.
Regards,
Mr. Fahrenholz

Answer 1

I figured it out myself.
I was getting ahead of myself, when using Eclipse. It auto-completed the throw statements in many of my methods, so the timeouts I recieved, was simply passed back to the client (in which I caught the first timeout I discovered - and incidently, all the rest).
Cheers :)