Re: create a utility to do background tasks in tomcat

["David Wible" <davdouglas69@hotmail.com>]

Here is another tool that might help.  May be a little more than you want 
but....

http://webtools.dyade.fr/jdring/

David




>From: Kamesh Challa <kamesh@netexpress.net>
>To: Poorav Chaudhari <pooravc@yahoo.com>
>CC: ajug-members@ajug.org
>Subject: Re: create a utility to do background tasks in tomcat
>Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:25:30 -0400
>
>Check out Timer and TimerTask from java.util package.
>
>
>Thanks and BR,
>--Kamesh Challa
>Yash Technologies Inc.
>
>
>Quoting Poorav Chaudhari <pooravc@yahoo.com>:
>
> > I want to create a utilty to do some tasks in the background, every hour 
>or
> > so.
> > This is part of my web application running on tomcat using struts
> > framework.
> > What would be a good way achieve this. is there any online resource that
> > shows
> > me how to implement this in tomcat. I am thinking maybe in my web.xml 
>file
> > i
> > can start up a servlet that sleeps and wakes itself up on regular 
>intervals
> > of
> > time. does tomcat start initialize the servlets using the same thread or
> > does
> > it spawn a different thread for each servlet initialized through 
>web.xml.
> > does
> > my idea even hold any ground of implementing this or should i go some 
>other
> > route?
> >
> > Thanks for your input in advance.
> >
> > =====
> > Poorav Chaudhari
> >
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