COBRA Objects with Timer Event

Question

Hello

I have a program that creates COBRA objects which are subscribed for different events (from other remote CORBA objects) and log every event that thay receive in a database. The problem is that I also want this objects to send request to this other remote CORBA object every minute.

How can I do this?

May be start additional thread for every created CORBA object and use it to ping my objects?

Or may be I can use POA and tell it to send a message to all my objects (but without blocking)? Or request information from POA and make my own invocation (but also without blocking?)