Background thread

[fers]

I am using background thread with Seam (for sending emails).

I read documentation but not finding what I was looking for.
The background thread wakes up every few minutes and I want to select something from database (hibernate).

I want to use something similar to ContextFilter, but allow calling from my code.

At this time I am using Lifecycle.beginCall(); but it is not working at all.


How should I do that?

[gavin.king]

Use an asychronous method, with an interval

[fers]

But there is problem with persistency. I think I can't use asynchronous method, because I need the thread to be spanned after start of the application (and I need it to be running only one at a time).

Anyway thank you Gavin.