I quick look through "Turbine" and I found it. Never mind.
Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taylor Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:40 PM
Subject: Scheduled Events
> What do you folks think about a scheduled event daemon? J2EE doesn't
cover
> this, I don't think any other frameworks do it yet, and it is similar to
> request event handling except the events are "anonymous" and don't contain
a
> request object.
>
> It could be implemented around a server startup servlet which reads a
config
> file, much like the Action servlet, and at designated intervals invokes
the
> "action" class specified in the config file. Instead of passing in the
> request object it would only be able to send the servlet context. There
are
> a lot of uses for something like this, for instance, downloading messages
> from a pop3 server, checking load info and sending out warnings, or
anything
> that we might have used cron to do 'back in the day'. (Well, some of you
may
> not know what Cron is and it's probably better that way ).
>
> I suppose it could be implemented entirely separate to Struts, however, it
> would make a nice addition.
>
> Taylor Cowan
