Is there a best-practice for the follwing case: 1. EJB should poll all 5 minutes a file (or whatever) 2. send the file to JMS (or whatever) my solution: 1. Create Session Bean 2. Deploy Session Bean 3. Create Client that calls Session bean with Method START_FIRST_TIME() 4. Session Bean registers Timer 5. Timer calls session bean DO_THE_WORK() all 5 minutes So I need step 2 and 3 one ONE time. That is ugly. Any better suggestion (as long as we keep in EJB Standard)? Any Mbean service available that can do this by configuration ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4043135#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...