The features I mentioned are not available in the current release. You can use a third-party scheduler/work management API such as quartz. You can also use the existing EJB 3.0 timer functionality, but it's fairly cumbersome for your use-case. You would need to define a stateless session bean that exposes a business method that creates the timer. Then you'd need to call that business method from a web application initialization callback.
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