Running code on deployment

[dsouza]

Hi,

I'm trying to get my application to set a timer to run whenever it's deployed. The timer will trigger a bean that does some periodic background work. I know how to set the timer, but I don't know how I can get the timer setting code to run upon deployment. Anyone know how this can be done?
I'm thinking maybe there's even a better way to create a background process running in JBOSS but I don't know how to do it either. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Denis

[euvitudo]

I don't know if this is the best solution, but the way I do it is to instantiate the bean using a servlet. This way I can also allow dynamic configuration (stopping, starting, modifying the interval of, etc.) the timer through the same servlet. In the web.xml, include the load-on-startup tag with a 1.

[dsouza]

Sounds good. Thanks! I'll try that.