We use quartz already for scheduled tasks but the work that I'm talking about doesn't necessarily happen on a timer. The main use for us is the asynchronous execution of work once we've figured out which node in our cluster should handle it. I'm still going to consider java.util.concurrent since we use it elsewhere but I'm also going to look more into Spring.
Thanks for your help, Kevin. On 13 February 2015 at 09:32, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dan, > > On 2/13/15 7:29 AM, Daniel Mikusa wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Kevin Hale Boyes > > <kcbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I currently have an application running on weblogic that I'm > >> moving over to tomcat 8. One of the things the application does > >> is run background jobs using the commonj WorkManager. These jobs > >> are managed by weblogic which seems to be the recommended > >> practice. > >> > >> What is the best/recommended way to run background jobs in Tomcat > >> 8? > >> > > > > Personally I'd use Spring, which has a nice and simple way to > > schedule tasks. I'd also be using Spring for other things though > > and I'm not sure I'd pull it in just for scheduled tasks. > > > > A quick google search came up with this library. > > > > http://commonj.myfoo.de/ > > > > Haven't personally used it though. > > > > I suppose another option would be to just use > > java.util.concurrent. > > That amounts to rolling-your-own. If you just need to do something on > a rough schedule, then java.util.concurrent is fine: start a thread > that does something every 10 minutes or whatever. > > If you want real scheduling, you want something like Quartz: > http://quartz-scheduler.org/ > > I would argue that there are better solutions than using Quartz from > within your own web application, but it depends upon your perspective. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJU3icEAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRY9bIP/ilEoImpKncX82WU+SqgQQgP > zUhUTP0x+bntXNpouuxbb1NOhHKH6d7l0p2WKkQRoKf2qxJzxYhEnAiBELCI7CQF > 02OrXnzl4VmatgVgd5Aom/7QIzhLArLKNosGwIS8d/BbssPcZS6plBTU70VS8C7D > I+QON7RW3veJG9SFFA5sKrGhlgFuDUTbrLcz/oZeZ2xdbg4s2htAH9B+XNz5Gbvv > NKESUASPTGzYCSwZhgwIVoxZZavdkCwVvSJIEyPDlGwMDrBkYdSg/GbctyHA8Mny > METMmlN9Q29mEc6/VNSv6B+XtqUWCPud0WAPZm6rIso7NaV/ScY+/L19lzvLOn1a > SvwYavQ8bdGWb+w5xIcnsnZkLknwaDJoYMerquwnCxsPqaAdBygdku8OuvA8PxT4 > eIlUCOoT5GjxWTEX+HIWBvyx2KXTM8EScYdyXCuGtxnKcpexYaXBJQ2GhNc4EHym > T3JiLu/fAIu4TWyI6oM64YLMfJfNk49gNtPCjWfRluG4qqKQ3YqjQubf8FIe/vOe > y1wXzC/7KtV1urLDL74mLTjGpihiig3e9CRa7MWK354K/WoSlgbkze/Ac1df40g+ > Zq1MpgnGQmjgvG16FGujeL5U+QlwFTXYNAqXKsP0++FJJ9DEhkQM8c0yYlDplOYZ > xFKob5fnVsgVj1flZH4N > =aLoS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
