hi Scott, I don't know much about Quartz. But I really think it is the correct direction to migrate home-grown codes to mature third party solution or separate mature ofbiz components as standalone framework. As such, we can focus on value creation and furthermore it might help attract more developers to join.
-- Regards, Michael Xu (xudong) On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Scott Gray <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > I was looking at the Quartz Scheduler project (www.quartz-scheduler.org) > over the weekend and it looks like it could be a good fit for OFBiz. We ran > into some issues with the scheduled service code in OFBiz recently where a > heavy server load would cause all sorts of strangeness (multiple reschedules > for a single failed job, inability to purge old jobs before a timeout, those > two combined eventually bringing the server to its knees), and my options > are to either find and fix the problem(s) or replace the scheduler with an > external solution. > > I've only had a brief look but it appears like quartz is pretty extensible > and would allow us to continue to support things like temporal expressions > (and the deprecated recurrence infos) and could probably increase the number > of scheduling features available to OFBiz. It's ASL2 licensed and seems to > be pretty mature. > > Does anyone have any experience with quartz to share? Opinions or other > possible alternatives would be most welcome. I'm not looking to implement > anything anytime soon but figured we may as well start discussing it. > > Thanks > Scott > > HotWax Media > http://www.hotwaxmedia.com > >
