Hi ejb-guru's I have 2 related questions I hope someone can advise me on (I'm new to EJB's), relating to the java.util.Timer class and EJB's
<Context> I am working on a basic shopping cart system, using a stateful-session bean to represent the customers shopping process. The customer reserves items (ie puts them in his cart while continuing to shop), then, after a specified time, if he has not checked out those items(ie moved to payment stage) they will automatically be unreserved until such time as he is ready to pay (at which time the system will attempt to rereserve them). I wanted to use the util.Timer class and util.TimerTask to schedule and implement this unreservation process. </context> <Questions> Firstly, the Timer class works buy creating a seperate thread to run in. I have been told (although I don't fully understand why) that it is prohibited to create threads in a J2EE container since threads are managed by the container and shouldn't be messed with. How will using the Timer class affect / be affected by this? Is there a better way? Second, if I create the Timer object in the stateful session bean it would mean that for every customer there will be a seperate thread running which is obviously not ideal. Ideally, I want to be able to create one Timer thread that all the EJB's can share. Is this possible, any clues on how I might implement such a scenario? </Questions> Any comments / ideas appreciated Joel ==========================================================================To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
