Refreshing Periodically

Use the refresh-period-in-seconds element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file to refresh a read-only bean periodically.

• If the value specified in refresh-period-in-seconds is zero or not specified, which is the default, the bean is never refreshed (unless a transactional method is accessed).

• If the value is greater than zero, the bean is refreshed at the rate specified.

This is the only way to refresh the bean state if the data can be modified external to the Enterprise Server.

By default, a single timer is used for all instances of a read-only bean. When that timer fires, all bean instances are marked as expired and are refreshed from the database the next time they are used.

Use the -Dcom.sun.ejb.containers.readonly.relative.refresh.mode=true flag to refresh each bean instance independently upon access if its refresh period has expired. The default is false. Note that each instance still has the same refresh period. This additional level of granularity can improve the performance of read-only beans that do not need to be refreshed at the same time.

To set this flag, use the asadmin create-jvm-options command. For example:

asadmin create-jvm-options --user adminuser -Dcom.sun.ejb.containers.readonly.relative.refresh.mode=true