Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi guys,

Here is the requirement which totally stumped me.

" The web app should have a feature like a background process or something like cron jobs.. which keeps on running in the background and at a particular time each day calls a method". User intervention is not an option.

Now had this been a stand alone app .. I could have done this using Threads.. but i cant possibly use threads in a J2EE app. Any pointers.. how I can go about realizing this

Thanks for your replies.

Cheers!