The innovation of Java EE 7 is the increase of the asynchronous part in the enterprise components. We have shown the WebSockets and REST in the earlier chapters. In this chapter, we will complete the discussion on the EJB that was started in Chapter 4, Implementing Business logic, making the EJB asynchronous, and we will show the timers and the schedulers introduced in the EJB 3.1 specs according to the following:
- Asynchronous EJB annotations
- Timers and schedulers
- Message driven beans