As mentioned in EJBTHREE-1733:

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Another bug - private timeout methods on the bean aren't invoked by the timerservice impl. The spec allows for such invocations:

EJB3.1 Spec, 18.2.5.3: A timeout callback method can have public, private, protected, or package level access. A timeout callback method must not be declared as final or static.
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Creating this new JIRA for tracking this specific issue separately.