Hi, Quartz and Flex are good. They may be overkill though, depending on your needs. Java.util.Timer is perfectly fine as well. Where to initialize also depends on your needs, but a Servlet's init or a ServletContextListener's contextInitialized are two candidate locations.
Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: James Neville [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:40 AM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: Re: Timing service in Tomcat > >Sasha, > >Sasha Borodin wrote: > >>Is anyone using a good 3rd party scheduling framework? >> >Have a look at: >http://www.quartzscheduler.org/quartz/ (ooooh its moved to >OpenSymphony!) > >We're using this in part with some in-house stuff. >It works well; I actually can't think of any other open -source >component that's comparable. > >> >>Or is this kind of stuff home-grown right now (java.util.Timer, etc.)? If >>you've got your own timer, where do you initialize it (like in a servlet's >>init() or a context listener)? >> > >For the custom stuff, we have a seperate servlet for each job/task >(java.util.Timer), and a reference is stored to them in the application >context, for admin purposes. >We start each Timer from a single Startup servlet, which gets the >majority of its parameters from the web.xml file (ideally, i'd rather >this was seperated). > >If you have any more questions, shoot, i'll try and answer as best I can. > >James. > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
