Why returning string from java stored function failed ?

Question

I created java stored function: it's doing http post, parsing xml from http reply, and returning string result.
Sometimes, it doesn't return any value. What can be a reason ?
The high level procedure, has following form:
class SBE {
public static String call(String arg0) {
SBE sbe=new SBE("d:\\oracle\\ora81\\network\\log\\SBE.log");
String result=SBEParser.go(sbe.sendRequest(arg0, ""), sbe.logger);
sbe.logger.log(result);
sbe.logger.log("Finish SBE intetraction");
return result;
PLSQL wrapper has a simple form:
create or replace package PG_SBE as
function CALL(arg0 in varchar2) return varchar2;
end;
create or replace package body PG_SBE as
function CALL(arg0 varchar2) return varchar2 as language java name 'SBE.call(java.lang.String) return java.lang.String';
end;
In log file ("d:\\oracle\\ora81\\network\\log\\SBE.log"), I can find message :
"Finish SBE intetraction"
but query:
select pg_sbe.call("any argument") from dual;
doesn't finish.
What can be a reason ? What can I do to trace stage of convertion java string to varchar ?
Please help me...
Marek

Answer 1

This comes up periodically. It just isn't possible using that type of approach. Probably the best you could do is the create an ADT (containing collections) and use that to pass a 'batch' of information.
Hopefully this will get addressed in the next release of the database.