java Timer class VS TimerMBean

[sugramoin]

i can write a Mbean and call in it a Timer object which servers me the purpose of scheduling. Or i can use a TimerMBean which is provided my jboss. which is the best.

for me to write a new MBean and add a Timer in its start method is very simple, but i am not sure if it is the right way to do scheduling.

TIA
MOIN.

[genman]

I wrote my own MBeans with the java Timer class and it works okay. There's nothing wrong with using JMX for that.

You get a little more flexibility with the JBoss scheduler in terms of when and how often tasks are run, but I wasn't too sure if the timer tasks were executed all in the same thread or could pontentially "block" other unreleated tasks.

[adrian.brock]

The JMX reference implementation uses the java timer
class under the hood.
It doesn't scale very well.
I'm not sure whether is a problem with the java
timer implementation or the reference implementation's usage.

Regards,
Adrian