[jboss-as7-dev] EJB Remote client design: async method designation

[Carlo de Wolf]

On 09/16/2011 05:09 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> The client cannot know whether it was designated as such, since the
> designation may be on the DD (also 4.5.1) which may not be visible to
> the client.  So whatever means we have to determine this fact we should
> utilize.  If there is a case where a non-async method legitimately could
> return Future, then we can skip this trick.  Also, see below...

The way the spec is now a method must be designated as asynchronous 
either by @Asynchronous or via the DD.
It does not allow the return type to be used for designation. So there 
is your legitimate case.

Carlo