CronacleBeans builds on the strengths of Cronacle, the Redwood Software real-time, event-driven business process automation solution used to manage mission-critical client/server business systems around the world. CronacleBeans extends this foundation technology, enabling straight-through asynchronous processing, in an enterprise Java environment. CronacleBeans automates the management and monitoring of scheduled workload in a Java Enterprise Edition environment. The solution enables organizations to establish a central point of control for cross-platform processing as well as seamless integration between strategic legacy and new Web Services based applications. CronacleBeans enhances the Java Enterprise Edition application environment, offering corporations a comprehensive, unified, Java-based operating platform upon which to run Internet and Intranet driven transactions as well as asynchronous workload. Java processes can be configured for deferred execution, enabling customers to realize all of the scheduling benefits currently enjoyed by existing users running Cronacle to control their business-critical applications.