Thanks Craig,
The example is just what I needed!
Sincerely,
Tom Kochanowicz
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Subject: Re: Executing a servlet at a Certain Time
"blueads.com" wrote:
> Grant,
> Thanks for the "idea" of a solution. The "AT" command sounds like
a crontab
> in UNIX. Does anyone on the list know if it is possible (have an example)
to
> execute a servlet with the "AT" command?
>
This is actually pretty easy, thanks to the java.net.URLConnection class.
You can just
write a little Java application that performs a request to the appropriate
URL to
trigger the action you want.
There is example code for using this class in the Java Language Tutorial at
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial>, in the networking trail.
Craig McClanahan
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