One solution that helps is to have a @Destroy method in which you cancel the timer using timer.cancel(). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4080151#4080151 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4080151