Client locks up on RMI call to firewalled computer

Hello,

I know the 'RMI vs. Firewall' issue has been much discussed, but I
think my problem is slightly different.

When our application makes an RMI call to another application running
on Windows XP with the built in firewall turned on, the calling
application locks up indefinitely. When the firewall is turned off
the RMI call works, and when the XP machine is shut down, we get an
exception.

What I'm looking for is a way to set RMI up so that the call to the
firewalled machine fails in a reasonable amount of time, rather than
just getting swallowed and freezing the program.

Any thoughts?

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Joshua ChaitinPollak
Software Engineer
Kiva Systems

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