Personally, I feel that the timer service API is far too limited. I wrote an article that discussed the use of cron like configuration ... I would like to know if we can offer this sort of thing as a non-standard option - I have a feeling if we do it, the next EJB JSR will adopt it.
Here is a link to the article I wrote: http://www.theserverside.com/resources/article.jsp?l=MonsonHaefel-Column4 -- Richard Monson-Haefel Co-Founder\Developer, Apache Geronimo Author of: J2EE Web Services (AW 2003) Enterprise JavaBeans, 4ed (O'Reilly 2004) Java Message Service (O'Reilly 2000) http://www.Monson-Haefel.com
