MDB and Cron are two completely different things. Cron is a task scheduler, there are several task schedulers available for J2EE servers, but MDBs are not task schedulers. MDBs provide transactional support, and various other retry and DLQ features depending on the vendor, cron just runs the task.
I wouldn't think that you could replace cron with MDBs. hth dim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Milind Kulkarni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 4:09 PM Subject: Message Driven Bean > Hi All, > > We are developing a several batch programs. The batch programs are invoked > using Unix CRON job at a specified time. Somebody told us that it would be > better if we can use MDB. > > I have the following questions in this regard: > > 1. Will we still need Unix CRONs to invoke batch program if we decide to > use MDBs? If no, how we can schedule batches using MDB? > 2. What are the real advantages of using MDB over CRON? > > > Thanks & Regards, > Milind > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
