Weblogic rmi timeout not working - timeout

Question

In Weblogic 12.1.2 I can use the property RMI_TIMEOUT ("weblogic.jndi.responseReadTimeout") or RESPONSE_READ_TIMEOUT ("weblogic.jndi.responseReadTimeout") to set the timeout in my RMI connections. But in weblogic 12.1.1 they do not work (since they don`t exist).
see the api: http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/wls/WLAPI/weblogic/jndi/WLContext.html
The strange thing is that RMI_TIMEOUT is deprecated in 12.1.2, but it does NOT exists IN WEBLOGIC 12.1.1, see:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs100/javadocs/weblogic/jndi/WLContext.html
nevertheless, i tried both (and other properties) and none of them worked in weblogic 12.1.1 (they only worked in 12.1.2).
I can`t migrate to weblogic 12.1.2 because it needs java 7, and i cant change it right now.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
Observation: I need to set the RMI timeout because i access an external service that sometimes does not respond, so i need my application to be independent from this other service and let it more robust.

Answer 1

I found the solution.
We had to apply an weblogic patch (from weblogic 12.1.1 to weblogic 12.1.1.0.5).
In 12.1.1.0.5, i could access the RMI_TIMEOUT property. Thats why it was deprecated in 12.1.2, even if it does not exists in 12.1.1 raw version. It becomes available after the patch is applied.
# EDITED
If i use the weblogic proprietary API, the rmi timeout works in any version:
Environment env = new Environment();
env.setProviderUrl("");
env.setInitialContextFactory("weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory");
env.setRMIClientTimeout(30000L);
Context context = env.getInitialContext();
Hope it helps someone.
Tiago