I think the ColdFusion scheduler works great and can be used for mission-critical applications.
I don't think you will find too many fundamental complaints about using it, unless perhaps you are looking at complaints from 10 years ago. Occasionally you will see comments about a scheduled task not executing, but I think all of these end up being user error where people don't enter a configuration setting correctly, or they have an error in the page being executed. Other times you will see comments about a task running more than once, but most of these are people forgetting that they set up the same scheduled task on a development or test server. I can't think of too many issues with using the cfscheduler that are not ultimately the result of user error. The daylight saving time clock adjustment can be a source of uncertainty, but this would be the case for any task scheduler. If a page execution takes longer than the scheduled repeating interval, say it takes 15 minutes to run a page that is scheduled to run every five minutes, and there is no multi-threading protection in the code, then this can be another source of problems. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Brook Davies <cft...@logiforms.com> wrote: > > How reliable is the CF Scheduler? For years we have used the infusion > mailserver and its Infusion Scheduler App/Service. Its always worked great > but since that product is dead/no longer supported, we need to find a new > way of running scheduled tasks and adding/removing scheduled task > programmatically. In the past I have seen lots of posts about the built in > scheduler being unreliable. > > > > What I need to know is can the built in scheduler be used reliably for > mission critical applications? > > > > Thanks for your input! > > > > Brook > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348956 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
