I've not looked at it but I believe apache sling has a scheduling service that wraps quartz already.
Would it worth while extracting that to a common service both karaf and sling could share? Mark -- Sent from an Android. On 21/07/2011 12:49 AM, "Jean-Baptiste Onofré" <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > Hi Ioannis, > > It's a really good idea (we discussed of that for Cellar :)). > > It could be very helpful for a large set of requirements. > > I wonder: > 1/ should it be a standard feature or an optional one (I think standard > is better as it doesn't require any resource if not used. It could be > comparable to the Scheduler that we find in an Oracle database). > 2/ as for security/encryption (which use a simple encryption class or > Jasypt), maybe it could be interesting a use a simple scheduler (just a > Java Timer) and provide an optional feature to provide advanced > scheduling (cron, etc) which can be powered by Quartz > 3/ add commands and console pages is a requirement. We can imagine > projects that could use Karaf as an enterprise scheduler (with team > escalation, etc). > > Thanks > Regards > JB > > On 07/20/2011 02:38 PM, Ioannis Canellos wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I added a new module to Karaf. The purpose of this module is to provide >> means for scheduling tasks through the osgi service registry. >> >> The scheduler module registers a ServiceListener that listens for services >> of the java.lang.Runnable interface that also have 2 service properties that >> are required for scheduling: >> >> a) org.apache.karaf.scheduler.task.id (A string identifier for the task that >> is going to be scheduled). >> b) org.apache.karaf.scheduler.task.period (A long number that indicates the >> execution period in milliseconds). >> >> Please note that all Runnable that don't have both properties will be >> ignored. All other will be scheduled for execution via java Timer. >> >> I also plan to add shell commands for listing, rescheduling >> & canceling events. It might be a goog idea to also add properties for >> supporting cron expression etc. >> >> You can find the initial commit in the trunk. >> >> wdyt? > > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com
