I couldn't agree with you more Michael.

Regards
Scott

On 18/10/2010, at 2:45 PM, Michael Xu (xudong) wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 

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