title: EJB3 + JEE6: What is a persistent Timer?
body: <p>I'm just about to use the new EJB3 TimerService (as part of Java EE 6), and as usual, I'm impressed by the brevity of JavaDoc :)</p>
  
  <p>Do you know what is the effect of the <code>persistent</code> property of the <code>TimerConfig</code> object?</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/api/javax/ejb/TimerConfig.html" rel="noreferrer" title="JavaDoc TimerConfig">JavaDoc TimerConfig</a> says: <em>The persistent property determines whether the corresponding timer has a lifetime that spans the JVM in which it was created. It is optional and defaults to true.</em></p>