Re: [jboss-as7-dev] EJB Remote client design: async method designation

On 09/16/2011 05:09 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote: > The client cannot know whether it was designated as such, since the > designation may be on the DD (also 4.5.1) which may not be visible to > the client. So whatever means we have to determine this fact we should > utilize. If there is a case where a non-async method legitimately could > return Future, then we can skip this trick. Also, see below... The way the spec is now a method must be designated as asynchronous either by @Asynchronous or via the DD. It does not allow the return type to be used for designation. So there is your legitimate case.