FYI, we need Quartz 1.6.1, but it hasn't been published to the maven
repo. Looks like the most recent Quartz binary is a year or so old.
Feel encouraged to throw a "me too" on this thread asking for it to be
published:
http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?messageID=588417򏪁
-David
On Oct 16, 2008, at 2:49 AM, David Blevins wrote:
Alex Grönholm and I were chatting about what it will take to support
the @Schedule functionality in EJB 3.1. We (the expert group)
introduced some pretty good syntax to deal with a lot of advanced
expressions that go beyond cron. I pulled down the Quartz source
and poked around to see what we'd have to do.
Quartz has pretty much everything we'll need. One thing that Alex
Grönholm pointed out on IRC was that the Quartz cron support does
not allow specification of both dayOfWeek and dayOfMonth. So far
EJB 3.1 allows this so it is possible to write a schedule that is
executed every Friday the 13th, for example. That seems to be the
only limitation so far.
Some small differences in syntax. For "first Monday of the month"
Quartz uses "2#1" in EJB 3.1 we chose a more straight forward syntax
of "1st Mon" as we can get away with spaces as we have separate
attributes in the annotation for hour, dayOfWeek, year and so on
rather than one expression string split on a spaces. We also went
with spelling out "Last" instead of just using "L" and the Quartz
"6L" for "last friday of the month" becomes "Last Fri" in EJB 3.1.
Other than that, things are pretty much the same.
One thing EJB 3.1 has that I couldn't find digging in the Quartz
source is "3 days from the end of the month" which can be expressed
as "-3" in the dayOfMonth. Can't yet find a Quartz equivalent.
-David
