Tag: JNDI

  • Job Scheduling – The Timer Service

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    Most non-trivial applications require at least some asynchronous processing but direct use of the thread library is not allowed in a JEE container environment. To get around this limitation EJB 2.1 introduced a timer service which, although functional, wasn’t very feature rich. This has finally been fixed in EJB 3.1 which brings a new, annotation driven,…