Asynchronous tag does not create new thread

[jon]

Hello,

I have marked a method in a conversation bean's interface with the @Asynchronous tag (org.jboss.seam.annotations.async) and amended components.xml to include
async:timer-service-dispatcher, using http://jboss.com/products/seam/async-2.0.xsd. However the method is called in the usual way and does not run in a new thread as expected.

In the online documentation it says to use core:dispatcher instead, but dispatcher is not a property of the http://jboss.com/products/seam/core-2.0.xsd. However I see that there is also a org.jboss.seam.core.Dispatcher class. Am I using the wrong references, or do I need to create an EJB timer object? The documentation implies that all is required is the annotation and an amendment to components.xml. I am using Seam 2.0 and other components.xml references are all 2.0.

Thanks very much,
Jon

[hcgpragt]

you probably thought of this but:

A new thread is only used when there are threads free in the threadpool. Otherwise the  current thread is used to execute the async method.

just my 2 cents,

H

[jon]

Thanks I was not aware of a seam threadpool I will try that.