Threading and IO in EJBs

[parikshit]

Dear All,      As per the EJB specifications threading is not allowed in EJBs. I believe the reason for the same is, the Server does instance pooling of the EJBs. But what if I want daemon thread which have to do some work in the background? Does it not allow creating threads from classes invoked from EJBs?   Also can I do IO operations in classes invoked from EJBs (EJB specs do not allow even IO operations,as they are not transactional)   Thank you, Parikshit