Configure work managers
A work manager acts as a thread pool for application components that use asynchronous beans. Use the console to configure work managers. If you are not familiar with work managers, review the conceptual topic, Work managers.
Overview
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 Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI).
The work manager service is only supported from within the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) Container or Web Container. Looking up and using a configured work manager from a J2EE application client container is not supported.
Procedure
- Start the console.
- Select Resources > Asynchronous beans > Work managers.
- Specify a Scope value and click New.
- Specify the required properties for work manager settings.
- Scope
- The scope of the configured resource. This value indicates the location for the configuration file.
- Name
- The display name for the work manager.
- JNDI Name
- The JNDI name for the work manager. This name is used by asynchronous beans that need to look up the work manager. Each work manager must have a unique JNDI name within the cell.
- Number of Alarm Threads
- The maximum number of threads to use for processing alarms. A single thread is used to monitor pending alarms and dispatch them. An additional pool of threads is used for dispatching the threads. All alarm managers on the asynchronous beans associated with this work manager share this set of threads. A single alarm thread pool exists for each work manager, and all of the asynchronous beans associated with the work manager share this pool of threads.
- Minimum Number Of Threads
- The initial number of threads to be created in the thread pool.
- Maximum Number Of Threads
- The maximum number of threads to be created in the thread pool. The maximum number of threads can be exceeded temporarily if the Growable check box is selected. These additional threads are discarded when the work on the thread completes.
- Thread Priority
- The priority to assign to all threads in the thread pool.
Every thread has a priority. Threads with higher priority are run before threads with lower priority. For more information about how thread priorities are used, see the javadoc for the setPriority method of the java.lang.Thread class in the Java Standard Edition specification.
- [Optional] Specify a Description and a Category for the work manager.
- [Optional] Select the Service Names (J2EE contexts) on which you want this work manager to be made available. Any asynchronous beans that use this work manager then inherit the selected J2EE contexts from the component that creates the bean. The list of selected services also is known as the "sticky" context policy for the work manager. Selecting more services than are actually required might impede performance.Other optional fields include:
- Work timeout
- Specifies the number of milliseconds to wait before a scheduled work object is released. If a value is not specified, then the timeout is disabled.
- Work request queue size
- Size of the work request queue. The work request queue is a buffer that holds scheduled work objects and may be any value 1 or greater. The thread pool pulls work from this queue. If you do not specify a value or the value is 0, the queue size is managed automatically. Large values can consume significant system resources.
- Work request queue full action
- Specifies the action taken when the thread pool is exhausted, and the work request queue is full. This action starts when you submit non-daemon work to the work manager. If set to FAIL, the work manager API methods creates an exception instead of blocking.
- Save your configuration.
Results
The work manager is now configured and ready for access by application components that need to manage the start of asynchronous code.
Work manager collection
Related tasks
Use asynchronous beans