myself and ben have suggested the most appropriate methods for doing this. Ben mentions WGET http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html which can be added to a *basic* script hooked up to a cron with an interval of whatever you like.
you really ought to get rid of threads and thread sleeps inside web application code. Allistair. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jorge Sopena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 December 2004 17:15 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: How to run servlet for every 30 minutes in Tomcat 4.1.30 > > > Hi, > I'm having a similar problem in my application. > I've got several servlets called by the users. Every requets > save some > information in DB, that has to be sent to another server > later and in a > compress format. > So I need sth similar toShilpa is asking, a process which > runs every X > minutes to recover the information and send it to the Server. > > My solution to this problem was to implement a > "ServletContextListener" > inside Tomcat. > When Tomcat starts my application the "contextInitialized" method is > called, and then a thread is started to do the task explained above. > I use "Thread.sleep(step)" to wait for the next execution. > > I didn't find anyway to set a timer for a servlet, and I > didn't like the > option of creating an external script . > > Any other suggestions to solver this problem? > > Thanks > > Jorge > > > Ben Souther wrote: > > >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] > > > > > > > > > > <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="VERDANA,ARIAL" COLOR=BLUE> ------------------------------------------------------- QAS Ltd. Developers of QuickAddress Software <a href="http://www.qas.com";>www.qas.com</a> Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 ------------------------------------------------------- </FONT> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
