Scheduler Thread question

[jnjintc]

Hi,

Is there a problem starting the JBPM scheduler from a EJB stateless session bean. I have read that an EJB should not manage or create threads and I was wondering if this might cause a problem ?

thanks,
Adam

[koen.aers]

Adam,

I would indeed not recommend this. The only generic tool you have for starting threads in a J2EE container is by spawning it off when a servlet starts. EJB's should not spawn threads, becaus you don't have direct control over their lifecycle.
The alternatives you have are either writing a standalone Java application that spawns a thread and polls the database and then maybe install this application as a system service or using the non-standard services that a J2EE container, such as JBoss AS, provide to run services.

Regards,
Koen

[jnjintc]

Thanks.
Would a JBoss JMX MBean work to start and stop the scheduler ?
If so, isn't JMX considered a standard ?

thanks,
Adam

[koen.aers]

This would indeed work. But the JBoss MBean mechanism, though using the JMX standard, is not at all a 'standard'.

Regards,
Koen