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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:07:21+00:00

I have a web service setup for on a small part of a website

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I have a web service setup for on a small part of a website and while the site overall gets a good amount of traffic this particular service does not. Once a day when I go to send a request through the web service it will fail on the first attempt, but retrying the request a second time works just fine. It’s as if it was no longer cached in memory and times out while starting up.

Is there a way to keep this service active either on my end or on the web service provider’s end which is also CF app (separate division of our company)? It’s a bit hard to troubleshoot because it only happens once after a long period. And I don’t want to setup a separate process just to keep pinging this service.

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  1. You can try to use following method on a webservice client side. CF7+ got built-in coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory Java service.

    Code can look like

    <cftry>     <!--- here goes attempt to invoke service method, maybe dummy 'ping' ---> <cfcatch type='any'>     <!--- trying to refresh WSDL --->     <cfset createObject('java','coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory').XmlRpcService.refreshWebService(ServiceURL) /> </cfcatch> </cftry> <!--- usual code --->

    Hope this helps.

    Note: this factory contains a lot of useful methods, but almost zero documentation over the internet. Good idea would be to dump it and explore a bit.

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