>Is there any way to make a servlet call itself automatically.   I want a
>servelt to ru nlat every nite to query a database and send Emails if there
>is new information in the database.  Whats the easiset way to have a
servlet
>call itself?


I don't think there is a standard way to do that. The idea of a servlet is
to be triggered by a user or another servlet, generate html code and send it
to a browser... not to be triggered at a certain time and perform some
non-html related action. So it will be very hard to make something like that
and make it work correctly.
That doesn't mean it's not possible, of course. You could try to create some
timer object, that checks the time and triggers servlets when it needs to.
But there will be some problems you'll have to work out.

Arjan Houtman
Antares Informatisering
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

___________________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body
of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST".

Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html
Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html
LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html

Reply via email to