anonymous wrote : | What is the recommendation to start/manage background worker threads in JBoss 4.0.x? | There is nothing to prevent you from developing a custom MBean that uses threads or a thread pool to preform background tasks. Simple wrap your Runnable/Thread stuff in an MBean and that's that. Also, JMX is nice for configuration/management as well. This would be my suggestion. You could develop a custom JCA adapter that's sole purpose is to give EJB and Servlets access to the WorkManagement API but this is a bit heavy when a simple MBean would really suffice. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008854#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...