Perhaps a servlet is the wrong machine to use; a simple java cmd line
program running which scans it's db once a day (and sleeps otherwise)
is better. Sending email is straight forward...
All os's have some kind of batch runner if you don't want to
worry about the engine (jvm) going down
At 07:16 AM 5/14/00, you wrote:
>The servlet should run once in a day..(Actually it is
>supposed to send Birthday greetings to people who's
>birthdates are stored in database,- matches with
>current date)
>I don't want to do empty Servlet request daily ..It
>should be *automated*
>
>Varun
>--- Danny Rubis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey!
> >
> > Step1) The servlet gets loaded upon the first
> > access. No problem there. Just
> > send the servlet an 'empty' request.
> > Step 2) No problem here also. Just call your
> > EmailMethod() in the init().
> > Step 3) Why would you want to unload the servlet?
> > No need. The servlet
> > container wants control of that. It's better left
> > to the container. There
> > *is* a destroy() that gets called when the container
> > boots the servlet out.
> > It's typically used for clean up of connection open
> > and so forth
> >
> > Are you sure this information wasn't in the archive
> > :>)
> >
> > Sans adieu,
> > Danny Rubis
> >
> > Varun Kumar wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i have a Servlet that sends e-mails to few
> > mail-ids
> > > (using javaMail API).
> > >
> > > Is it possible to automate the following steps:
> > >
> > > Step1) Loading in the servlet in Server(i'm using
> > > javawebserver2.0)
> > > Step2) Imediately send mailz (Or do whatewher the
> > work
> > > the servlet
> > > is programmed to do)
> > > Step2) Unload itself.from WebServer..
> > >
> > > (I searched the Archives but couldn't find
> > discussions
> > > related to this issue)
> > >
> > > Thankz for consideration..
> > >
> > > Varun
> > >
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