A work manager acts as a thread pool for application components
that use asynchronous beans. Use the administrative console to configure
work managers.
About this task
The work manager service is always enabled. In previous versions
of the product, the work manager service could be disabled using the
administration console or configuration service. The work manager
service configuration objects are still present in the configuration
service, but the enabled attribute is ignored.
You can define multiple
work managers for each cell. Each work manager is bound to a unique
place in the Java Naming and
Directory Interface (JNDI) namespace.
Important: The
work manager service is only supported from within the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) Container or web
container. Looking up and using a configured work manager from a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
(Java EE) application client
container is not supported.