Re: Timed Servlet

[Henri Yandell <bayard@generationjava.com>]

Why a servlet? I'd use a Java process wrapped in Quartz code.

Every day at midnight it would wake up and check the list of pages. If a
page hadn't changed it would send an email out to the configured email
address.

I'm running similar things [have been meaning to make a 'tell me when this
site changes' bit] and it's going fine performance-wise etc.

Hen

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Davis, Jerome wrote

> Can anyone help with these questions:
>
> I have a project where I need a servlet to continue to run indefinitely and
> check for updated pages to an intranet site. It is supposed to send out an
> email to a department's content shop and notify them if their pages have not
> been updated in the past 30 days.
>
> question #1: Is this at all feasible?
> question #2: What will the strain be on the web server (using websphere
> 3.5)?
> question #3: Will it affect other applications running on the server?
> question #4: How can this be implemented? ( Kinda of got an idea of maybe a
> 'bot' of some type to fetch the header info of certain pages )
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jay Davis
>