Hi I need to run a background task that will poll messages from a BlockingQueue, aggregate data (to some degree) and at regular intervals write the data to a file (append to a file).
Each appserver instance will write to its own file so there is no need to sync within a cluster or similar... I guess I could at startup create my own thread and peek the queue etc... but if I would keep it more strict Java EE 6 and also need access to @ApplicationScoped beans then I guess I could either use a one-off programmatic EJB timer or calling an @Asynchronous EJB methos (started/called from a @Singleton @Startup... EJB). What is the preferred approach you would use? Regards LF
