Connecting to EJB's in a Schedulable class

[jgkenned]

I am successfully doing this using a jndi lookup like this:

Object ref = initCtx.lookup("/ejb/myEJBBla");

However,
I'm having, what I think is a firing order issue with JBOSS. When I retrieve an EJB home interface within the constructor of a class that implements Schedulable, I get classdefnotfound errors.

I believe this is caused because the ejb container coming up after the mbean for the "Schedulable" tasks.

Can I change this order?
Should I? I have work-arounds, but they suck.

Jim
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