HTTP binding connection pool tuning

Connection pooling improves performance by avoiding the increased processor usage of creating and disconnecting connections. The connection pool contains outbound connection objects for reuse. When an application starts a web service over an HTTP transport, the HTTP outbound connector for the web service locates and uses an existing connection from a pool of connections. When the response is received, the connector returns the connection to the connection pool for reuse. The increased processor usage needed to create and disconnect the connection is avoided. The HTTPConnection object represents an outbound connection from the HTTP client. A background daemon thread cleans up the closed and expired outbound connection objects in the connection pool.

To view connection pool statistics, set a trace of SCA.Binding.HTTPBinding=finest, which writes the HTTP binding connection pool statistics into the trace file during each HTTP binding call.