Rico Jansen wrote: > The VWMS are similar to the crontab as they both can schedule on time. > An advantage of the VWMS is that they run in two ways , one is a call > every X seconds, the other is via de vwmtask which has a specified time > to execute. This means that the VWM itself can schedule tasks to be > executed. > As far as I know the crontab is a more straightforward run this at X time.
crontab is indeed very like UNIX' crontab, so you can schedule repeated jobs. But of course it is programmed in java, so you could programmaticly add and remove jobs, which probably means that a task can also itself schedule or remove tasks. Actually, another differnce may be that the granularity of crontab is only a minute, so you can't run anything more often than that (it would be a rather straightforward extension on the crontab syntax to fix that, but it is a bit more tricky to implement). Michiel -- Michiel Meeuwissen mihxil' Mediacentrum 140 H'sum [] () +31 (0)35 6772979 nl_NL eo_XX en_US
