On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:28, Allistair Crossley wrote: > no, and I believe doing so it bad practice. use some OS controlled timer like > cron to issue a HTTP call to your servlet. I once wrote a shell script that > calls a http address on the local machine but cannot remember how ;) if you > are using oracle then you can setup this timer thread inside the database > itself. don't add a thread into your web application. >
I concur. It's certainly possible to write a treaded java object that fires a command every so often but there would be no point in making that object a servlet (servlets exist to answer client requests). It's also, IMHO, more aggravation than it's worth to manage your own daemon threads in a webapp. It would take all of 2 minutes to write a timer with crontab and wget that could call your servlet whenever you want. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
