I am trying to figure out what the best way to perform a long running process within JBOSS. I have thought about having a quartz job wake up periodically and invoke a function of a MBEAN. The problem with this approach is that I don't want to timeout the quartz job (which is basically a MDB) so I was thinking that I would create a thread within the MBEAN to process the long running task. The problem with that approach is that I need to update the database and I can not access the EnitityManager from within a thread. Any thoughts of how this could be done? Is there a better way to accomplish this? Thanks, Scott View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4262829#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...