Oops, I forgot to mention, the recommended way to get asynchronous processing from an EJB is to use JMS. For example, your session EJB could send a JMS message to a queue, and you could have a Message Driven Bean registered on that queue to perform the work.
Al. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alastair Rodgers > Sent: 28 March 2003 09:30 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [JBoss-user] Starting threads from session beans > > > No, the EJB 2.0 Spec doesn't permit it. Section 24.1.2 (page > 495) states: > > <quote> > The enterprise bean must not attempt to manage threads. The > enterprise bean must not attempt to start, stop, suspend, or > resume a thread; or to change a thread's priority or name. > The enterprise bean must not attempt to manage thread groups. > > These functions are reserved for the EJB Container. Allowing > the enterprise bean to manage threads would decrease the > Container's ability to properly manage the runtime > environment. </quote> > > > Regards, > Al. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Alex Sumner > > Sent: 27 March 2003 20:15 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [JBoss-user] Starting threads from session beans > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Briefly: is it permissible to start a new thread from a > > thread running in a session bean? > > > > I've heard that it isn't allowed, but can't see this > > explicitly prohibited in the J2EE specs. More importantly, > > what will the consequences be in JBoss? If the session bean > > thread is in a TX, would I be correct in assuming the new > > thread will not be associated with that TX? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alex > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
