Doubt about timer method and methods allowed in a SFSB

[Nicolas Stern]

Hi everybody,

...perhaps my thinking's getting fuzzy...thanks for helping me putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

According to the core specs. par. 4.4.1 "Operations Allowed in the Methods of a Stateful Session Bean Class", a business method of a SFSB can have access to timer methods.

According par. 18.2, only SLSB and MDB and 2.1 Entity beans can be registered to the timer service. Timers cannot be created for SFSB or entities.

What am I missing ? Why should a SFSB access timer methods for ?

Thanks in advance - Cheers - Nicolas

[Mirko Bonasorte]

I suppose the timer methods are related to javax.ejb.TimerService and NOT to the fact that the ejb can be a TimedObject or not: so you can schedule a timer but you can't BE a timer.