Description
As we’ve seen with message-driven beans, a client request is not the only way to start a business taskflow. In addition to listening on incoming messages like MDB, events can be fired based on some timed criteria. EJB handles this via the Timer Service.
EJB 3.1 has seen significant advancements to the bean provider’s view of the Timer Service with a completely revamped natural-language syntax. This example models a credit card processing operation, which at the beginning of every hour will process all queued transactions. Scheduling the job is done both programmatically via the javax.ejb.TimerService API, as well as declaratively via the @Timeout and ^Schedule annotations.
Source Listing
Following is a full listing of all source code used in this runnable example.
Implementation Resources
CreditCardTransaction.java
CreditCardTransactionProcessingLocalBusiness.java
CreditCardTransactionProcessingBean.java
