The correct way to do this in your EJB is to use the ManagedExecutorService, which is part of the Concurrency Utils API (Java EE7). You shouldn’t be using any ExecutorService that is part of the java.util.concurrent in your enterprise code.
By using the ManagedExecutorService your new thread will be created and managed by the container.
The following example is taken from my site here.
To create a new thread using a ManagedExecutorService, first create a task object that implements Callable. Within the call() method we will define the work that we want carried out in a separate thread.
public class ReportTask implements Callable<Report> {
Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(getClass().getSimpleName());
public Report call() {
try {
Thread.sleep(3000);
catch (InterruptedException e) {
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Thread interrupted", e);
}
return new Report();
}
}
Then we need to invoke the task by passing it though to the submit() method of the ManagedExecutorService.
@Stateless
public class ReportBean {
@Resource
private ManagedExecutorService executorService;
public void runReports() {
ReportTask reportTask = new ReportTask();
Future<Report> future = executorService.submit(reportTask);
}
}