Mindy, If you care about single point of failures, I'd suggest running the enterprise version which uses ejb timers and can run on multiple servers. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4134084#4134084 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4134084