TimerTask and JBoss Seam?

[rocco82]

Hello friends,

as the title indicates, I try to use Java TimerTask for job scheduling. Quartz seems to be a little bit overweighted for my purpose. When I start a simple TimerTask as seen below

...
public class MyTask extends TimerTask {
     
     public MyTask() {}
     
     @Logger
     private Log log;
     
     @Override
     public void run() {
          
         log.info(TEST LOG);

     }
...

I get a NullPointerException, because the Log cannot be found. I guess the TimerTask is running outside of the bean container or something. How can I use Seam Pojos in TimerTask? How can I pull the TimerTask into the container so that I can use seam?
thx for reading

[tom_goring]

I'm not sure you can ... hows seam going to handle the contexts for you if there are none? 

I'd advise you look at the manual around this... I'm using quartz fine and there is also the ejb timer (which is even simpler). 

Thanks

Tom

[pmuir]

Or even simpler is the thread pool dispatcher, based on the JDK timer. It's installed by default.