Hello,

When migrating @Service POJOs from JBoss AS 4.2.3 to 5.1.0, I ran into a problem (bug?) with EJB timers (among others, more about those later in separate posts) . Simplified example:

DummyService.java:

package example;

public interface DummyService
{
 void start()
 throws Exception;
}

DummyServiceBean.java:

package example;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.annotation.Resource;
import javax.ejb.Timeout;
import javax.ejb.Timer;
import javax.ejb.TimerService;

import org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.Management;
import org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.Service;

@Service
@Management(DummyService.class)
public class DummyServiceBean
 implements DummyService
{
 @Resource
 protected TimerService timerService;

 public void start()
 throws Exception
 {
 timerService.createTimer(new Date(), 5000, "DUMMY");
 }

 @Timeout
 public void timeout(Timer timer)
 {
 System.out.println("PING");
 }
}

This works with AS 4.2.3 (annotation packages obviously changed to the old ones), but the createTimer() fails in 5.1.0 with an InvocationTargetException whose root cause is:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot obtain inMethodFlag for: TimerService.createTimer
 at org.jboss.ejb.AllowedOperationsAssociation.assertAllowedIn(AllowedOperationsAssociation.java:145)
 at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.TimerServiceFacade.assertAllowedIn(TimerServiceFacade.java:59)
 at org.jboss.as.ejb3.timerservice.TimerServiceFacade.createTimer(TimerServiceFacade.java:64)
 at example.DummyServiceBean.start(DummyServiceBean.java:24)
[...]

I don't remember seeing any instructions except the annotation package changes in the 5.x release notes for migrating @Service POJOs. Ideas?