> Answer at; > http://www.dpml.net/central/products/metro/composition/properties.html If I add dpml.composition.timeout = 10000 to $DPML_HOME/dpml.properties, I get a ClassCastException. I think that the problem is that it needs to be created as a Long in DefaultCompositionFactory.java:166 Also, is there a way to set the timeout on a per-component basis? Thank you.