Annotated EJB 3.1 @Asynchronous method not running asynchronously.

Created simple Java EE project, depoyed to both glassfish 3.0.1 and jboss 6-M5.

Glassfish appears to run asynchronously, jboss seems to block on the call and wait for the method to execute.

Here is the simple code example:

package com.syncme;

import javax.ejb.Local;

@Local
public interface TestAsynchLocal {

public void methodAsynchronous();
public void methodNonAsynchronous();
}

package com.syncme;

import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.annotation.Resource;
import javax.ejb.Asynchronous;
import javax.ejb.SessionContext;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;

@Stateless
public class TestAsynch implements TestAsynchLocal {

@Resource
SessionContext sctx;

@Asynchronous
public void methodAsynchronous() {
try

{ System.out.println("methodAsynchronous starting"); Thread.sleep(10000); System.out.println("methodAsynchronous done"); }

catch (InterruptedException ex)

{ Logger.getLogger(TestAsynch.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); }

}

public void methodNonAsynchronous()

{ System.out.println("methodNonAsynchronous starting"); TestAsynchLocal localAsynch = sctx.getBusinessObject(TestAsynchLocal.class); localAsynch.methodAsynchronous(); System.out.println("methodNonAsynchronous done"); }

}

Call from web:

package com.wbean;

import com.syncme.TestAsynchLocal;
import javax.ejb.EJB;
import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.bean.SessionScoped;

@ManagedBean(name="jsfmanbean")
@SessionScoped
public class NewJSFManagedBean {
@EJB
private TestAsynchLocal testAsynch;

/** Creates a new instance of NewJSFManagedBean */
public NewJSFManagedBean() {
}

public String Next()

{ return "NEXT"; }

public void RunLong()

{ testAsynch.methodNonAsynchronous(); }

}

Here are the outputs:

Jboss 6M5 run:

17:51:40,803 INFO [STDOUT] methodNonAsynchronous starting
17:51:40,804 INFO [STDOUT] methodAsynchronous starting
17:51:50,805 INFO [STDOUT] methodAsynchronous done
17:51:50,805 INFO [STDOUT] methodNonAsynchronous done

Glassfish 3.0.1 run:
INFO: methodNonAsynchronous starting
INFO: methodNonAsynchronous done
INFO: methodAsynchronous starting
INFO: methodAsynchronous done