How can an EJB parallelize a long, CPU intensive process?

Question

The application has a CPU intensive long process that currently runs on one server (an EJB method) serially when the client requests it.

It’s theoretically possible

Answer 1

Back to the Future - Java EE 7 has lot more Concurrency support via ManagedThreadFactory, ManagedExecutor service etc (JSR 236: Concurrency Utilities for Java EE) with which you can create your own 'managed'Threads .It is no longer a taboo in EE AS supporting it (Wildfly ?) via usining the ManagedThread* API's

More details

https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ec-public/materials/2013-01-1516/JSR236-EC-F2F-Jan2013.pdf http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/doc/concurrency-utilities002.htm