Asynchronous calls to Session Bean?

[Twink Vindaloo]

Is there any way for one session bean to call a business method on say another sessionb bean in an asychronous manner?
I do not want to use a MDB but would rather like to be able to call a method on a session bean asynchronously.
Can it be done?

[Lasse Koskela]

Can it be done? Technically yes, but you would be breaking the restrictions set by the EJB specification (you shouldn't create threads).

[Sri Basavanahally]

Can we call a business method on another session bean, from a session bean, using <ejb-ref> ?

[Lasse Koskela]

Yes we can, although you don't have to have an ejb-ref for the bean (it's a good practice but not mandatory).