Noa Drach [https://community.jboss.org/people/newway] created the discussion "Re: Avoiding concurrent invocations of an automatically scheduled bean" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/649292#649292 -------------------------------------------------------------- I am just considering my options when migrating for jboss 4.2.3 that had quartz embedded and I used the resources adapter to have an MDB that uses quartz. but now in jboss 7.1 quartz is not distributed and I was wondering if there is a replacement to it's capabilities. basically my scenario is as follows - I use an MDB registered to quartz to do some pulling on data the data is analyzed and than the whole cycle starts again. the thing is i don't want the cycle to start again if the processing of the current data takes longer than the diff between the invocations. i know i can always set the time longer, but it doesn't grantee that there won't be overlapping -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/649292#649292] Start a new discussion in EJB3 at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]