Phantom timeout

[phillycheese]

I'm having a strange problem where a ejbTimer() event is fired, even though no Timer was scheduled to go off at that time.

This only seems to occur in the following scenario.
I create a scheduled timer event to go off. At this point ejbTimeout() is called. WHILE processing is still going on inside the ejbTimeout() method, I cancel the timer and recreate a new one with the same name but at a different time.
Then the ejbTimeout() call is complete.
This is where the problem shows up. Immediately after ejbTimeout() is done,
I get ANOTHER call to ejbTimeout(). This is my phantom ejbTimeout(). Where did it come from? Any guesses? It can't be the new one i created because i set that one for 24 hours ahead of time.

Thanx

Phil

[phillycheese]

my environment is jboss 4.0.2 (linux)
Timer persistence is turned off in ejb-deployer.xml

this seems to occur when I cancel and recreate a timer (essentially resetting the timer).

When ejbTimeout() is called and completes, another call to ejbTimeout() occurs! Hence, I get 2 calls to ejbTimeout() when i really only want one.

Help help

Phil

[alexserbul]

This situation is described in timers section if EJB2.1 spec. Look there.