How long do you need the daemon thread for? I'd say that Async is the
closest match in the EJB land.
Best,
-marina
glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> I have a singleton session bean.
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> In it, I need to ask the container to--in a spec-compliant way--kick off what amounts to a daemon thread.
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> I know that I have several options ranging from creating a single-use Timer to somehow invoking an asynchronous method on the same bean (where the return type is essentially Future<void>, however one would write that.
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> I'm leaning towards the Timer.
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> I have experience writing resource adapters, and there there is a very convenient item called a WorkManager. You get a handle to it and give it a Work instance, and it runs it for you in the background, taking care of cleanup at shutdown. I'm looking for the equivalent from the EJB 3.1 side.
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> Thanks,
> Laird
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