I've spent a number of hours searching this forum and google for an answer to this question (in the title), but so far while I've seen a lot of references to it I've not found a good answer.
It also seems that this is a popular question.
All I want to do is to create a bean that will periodically ping mysql to see if there are any new records in a mail table, and if those records exist to send some emails. I'm using Glassfish for the rest of my app and so it makes sense to me that I would want to use it for this function too. I don't want a web interface or anything like that.
I've looked at the ServletContextListener but from what I can see it requires a bean to be instantiated. So far I've not been able to figure out how to automatically instantiate a bean when Glassfish starts up.
Am I missing something obvious here?
Thanks,
Eric
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