Yes. task executor is integrated with the wiki (it provides some UI for managing tasks, executors and, moreover, logs). It could have been implemented more easily if the JobModule API was available :)
Anyway task-executor is installable on XWikis as old as 3.1. -Fabio On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]>wrote: > On 11/10/2012 05:38 PM, Fabio Mancinelli wrote: > >> Yep. >> >> Job Module is cleaner of course but it's since 4.0M1... which rule out >> some >> older installation of XWiki. >> > > I think there's a difference in that the task executor module seems to > provide a wiki integration (by that I mean the end-user of it just has to > set up some XWiki objects in documents) while the job module is more an API > ? > Is that right ? > > Jerome > > > >> Good to know though (I didn't know about it) >> >> Thanks, >> -Fabio >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Thomas Mortagne >> <[email protected]>**wrote: >> >> Which is pretty muych what job module is already. >>> >>> See >>> http://extensions.xwiki.org/**xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Job+**Module<http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Job+Module> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Fabio Mancinelli < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>>> >>>> while working on a project I developed this simple system for managing >>>> >>> the >>> >>>> execution of long running execute-once tasks. It uses the scheduler and >>>> >>> it >>> >>>> provides a nice framework for logging and error reporting. >>>> >>>> The main use case for this extension is batch import of data, but also >>>> execute-once maintenance operations. Basically every task that is too >>>> >>> long >>> >>>> or heavy to be carried on in a single request, and doesn't really >>>> qualify >>>> to be a scheduler job. >>>> >>>> You can think of this system as a task queue that is processed in the >>>> background. >>>> >>>> I am contributing it to xwiki contrib. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Fabio >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> devs mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.xwiki.org/**mailman/listinfo/devs<http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thomas Mortagne >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> devs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/**mailman/listinfo/devs<http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/**mailman/listinfo/devs<http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/**mailman/listinfo/devs<http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs> > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
