The start, stop, and restart operations exposed by the JBoss AS 4 and 5 plug-in have a hard-coded time-out value. In some environments, an AS5 instance may take several minutes to fully start depending on what is being deployed and how many CPUs are available. In is not uncommon for an AS5 instance to take more then 5 minutes to fully start, especially within a development environment. This poses a problem for the start, stop, and restart operations if they are used to bring up or down the AS instance.

This request is to move the STOP_WAIT_MAX and START_WAIT_MAX hard-coded values to the plug-in configuration so that the values can be overridden by the user if necessary.

This would apply to both the JBoss AS4 and AS5 plug-in. These values are currently defined in:

org.rhq.plugins.jbossas.JBossASServerOperationsDelegate
org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.ApplicationServerOperationsDelegate


As:
    private static final long STOP_WAIT_MAX = 1000L * 150; // 2.5 minutes
    private static final long START_WAIT_MAX = 1000L * 300; // 5 minutes