anonymous wrote : I am beginner to EJB and i am having the concept that EJB will be executed only after the call from clients. That's correct. anonymous wrote : | Can we run our database centric code prior to the client call. If we can plz provide some examples You can have a look at th @Service provided by JBoss http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/app-server/reference/build/reference/en/html/j.... @Service provides lifecycle management APIs (which are explained in that document) through which you can perform the startup activities related to database. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4172247#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...