Hi, I recently asked this question in stackoverflow with not so great responses, but finally arrived to a solution.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24809196/how-to-pass-data-from-ejb-to-async-ejb/24940141#24940141

I wanted to ask the experts in JBoss development if the final solution would have any imlpications or problems.

I am using JBoss EAP 6.1

Let's get to the point. I need to develop 2 interceptors, which will intercept 2 EJB 3.1 SLSB, something like this:

@Stateless
@Interceptors(InterceptorA.class)
public class StatelessA{
  ...
  public void methodA(){
    statelessB.methodB();
  }     

@Stateless
@Asynchronous
@Interceptors(InterceptorB.class)
public class StatelessB{
  public void methodB(){...

I will create some data in InterceptorA, which needs to be available in InterceptorB. The problem is that since InterceptorB and methodB run in a different thread as methodA, since this is an asynchronous invocation.

Of course, my first thought was that I couldn't use a ThreadLocal variable, since these are not propagated to the asynchronous thread.

I read the EJB 3.1 specification, which states that the security context is propagated, so I thought I could use that for sending my information.

I solved it as follows:

In InterceptorA:

SecurityContext securityContext = SecurityContextAssociation.getSecurityContext();
securityContext.getData().put("interceptorAData",data);

In InterceptorB:

SecurityContext securityContext = SecurityContextAssociation.getSecurityContext();
securityContext.getData().get("interceptorAData");

That way I can pass the info correctly from interceptorA to B. Can somebody tell me if there's a better solution?

I know this implementation is coupled with JBoss server, but it decouples my application from the interceptors, which is what I want.