Non-EJB platform, but similar help

[sschell]

Hi All,

I need a platform that looks very much like
EJB's except that I need threaded services (more
like Session Beans than Entity as I have no real
persistence requirements). Thoughts: Leverage
the underlying JBoss components and build this
"new" platform or go somewhere else (which I
don't want to do).

Can you provide your thoughts?

Scott

[adrian.brock]

Why not just use session beans then?

You don't have to deploy a database or jms
in jboss

Regards,
Adrian

[sschell]

The main issue I have is that the services I need
to deploy are threaded which is not allowed in
EJBs...Essentially, the processes are long-lived
processes that have timers and the like...We've
used platforms like Apache's Avalon with some
limited success, but would like to move off of that
platform due to some issues we have found. What
would be perfect is the ability to have threaded
processes as Session Beans...

[adrian.brock]

Session beans support transactions
e.g. "Requires"
This means thread operations won't work
as expected.

If you don't need transactions you should
be ok.

You could just use the MBean kernel of
jboss.

Regards,
Adrian