Why is spawning threads in Java EE container discouraged?

Question

One of the first things I\'ve learned about Java EE development is that I shouldn\'t spawn my own threads inside a Java EE container. But when I come to think about it, I do

Answer 1

You can always tell the container to start stuff as part of your deployment descriptors. These can then do whatever maintainance tasks you need to do.

Follow the rules. You will be glad some day you did :)