I forsee our app using @Asynchronous as an orthogonal concern of the caller. The caller (in the cases I imagine in our app) really has no reason to know what the frequency, duration, etc of that async method is. It just needs to say "do this", and then carry along. Maybe this would be comparable to a JMS message use case. As for how it would work -- I'd be happy with simple long values on the annotation. I can hard code those as static longs for abstraction. I wish I had extra time to submit a patch. Working against some deadlines here. I guess consider this just a "would be nice to have" that I thought of while using @Asynchronous. Ryan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982136#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...