Thread.sleep bad, what good?

douglm Dec 27, 2002 9:13 AM

I guess this is a general EJB thing but it came up in the context of an MDB.

I have a simple MDB which when given an object representing an email message, interacts with our mailer to send the email.

If there are network problems or the mailer is not running I could choose to fail, but I get a retry immediately until the object ends up on the DLQ.

What I want to do is try the sendmail, if it fails sleep then try again until it works. This seems more appropriate then requeuing a message. However, Thread.sleep is bad (or so it says in the spec).

Is there any alternative?

1. Re: Thread.sleep bad, what good?

paulbandler Jan 14, 2003 5:16 AM (in response to douglm)

I have a similar need (indeed just posted a similar question couched in terms of whether it is possible to suspend and resume a MDB getting called-back). Did you find a solution?

rgds,

Paul Bandler
Uk
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