I'm trying to launch an indexing method on server startup so that the application server does not block. Looking at the examples I had thought something like the following would work but my doIndex method is still synchronous.

@Local
public interface Index
{
   public void create();
 
   @Asynchronous
   public void doIndex();
   
   public void remove();
}

@Name( "indexer" )
@Stateful
@Scope( ScopeType.APPLICATION )
@Startup

public class IndexerAction
        implements Index
{
   @Create

   public void create()
   {
      this.doIndex();
   }
   ...
   @TransactionTimeout( 1800 )
   public void doIndex()
   {
     ....
}

In components.xml

<!-- Install the QuartzDispatcher -->
 <async:quartz-dispatcher/>

In application.xml

<module>
        <ejb>lib/quartz.jar</ejb>
</module>