Paul,
There is quite a bit of supporting code missing in your message, but a quick
look over of before init event shows that you are calling run() directly. I
believe you should be calling start().
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Huard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 1999 4:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [ND] spawning cron-like threads
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to create a thread that periodically synchronizes a user database
> with an LDAP server. The code I used (shown below) works great, except
> that no NetD page ever comes up. All I get is the Netscape meteor shower
> which runs indefinitely ( I actually let it run overnight once).
>
>
> // my project classs - not a page class
> public class standards extends CSpProject{
>
> public static Hashtable storage = new Hashtable(1); // class var
>
>
> //[[SPIDER_EVENT<this_onBeforeInitEvent>
> public int this_onBeforeInitEvent(CSpInitEvent event)
> {
> try
> {
> CSpLog.send(this,CSpLog.CRITICAL,"Initializing standards.");
> DirectorySynch dirSynch = new DirectorySynch();
>
> // keep reference
> storage.put(SYNCHTHREAD,dirSynch);
> dirSynch.run(); // threads do not get garbage collected?
> }
> catch(Exception e)
> {
> String msg = "ERROR: Directory synchronization caused an exception. "
> + e.toString();
> Util.log(e,msg,e);
> }
> return (PROCEED);
> }
> //]]SPIDER_EVENT<this_onBeforeInitEvent>
>
> //[[SPIDER_EVENT<this_onBeforeTerminateEvent>
> public int this_onBeforeTerminateEvent(CSpTerminateEvent event)
> {
> CSpLog.send(this,CSpLog.CRITICAL,"NOTICE: Shutting down standards
> application.");
> DirectorySynch dirSynch = (DirectorySynch)
> storage.remove(SYNCHTHREAD);
> dirSynch.stop();
> return (PROCEED);
> }
> //]]SPIDER_EVENT<this_onBeforeTerminateEvent>
>
> ------------
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Paul
>
>
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