To deploy a scheduled task in an ear in JBoss 3.2.1 – 3.2.3 do the following
1) Create a sar file (for example timer.sar) which contains your jboss-service.xml file in its meta-inf directory. The sar is an archive file.
<!-- Timer -->
true
your class here
Schedulable Test,12345
java.lang.String,int
01/26/2004 10:05 AM
86400000
-1
true
your class here
Schedulable Test,12345
java.lang.String,int
01/26/2004 03:30 PM
86400000
-1
2) Include the sar into the root level of your ear.
3) Include a file called jboss-app.xml into the meta-inf directory of the ear. It should look like this
<jboss-app>
timer.sar
</jboss-app>
Your scheduled tasks will now deploy with ear and after any EJBs that may need them.
