This sort of thing was posted as a proposal to general@ by James House
and can be viewed here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/general%40jakarta.apache.org/msg00869.html
IIRC, he has started a cron like java utility to replicate the
commercial product Flux. It is now located at sourceforge.net under the
project name quartz.
I know he has interest in being involved with Jakarta, so maybe now
would be a good time to combine what Turbine and Avalon and Quartz have
for the commons good as well ;-)
I would be +1 on something like this, although I am sure that Peter will
point out that Avalon has this, so I am also for housing it in Avalon,
as an example of the framework, something like the (new)
jakarta-turbine-jyve format.
Scott Sanders
Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> Does anyone know of work towards a generic package for background job
> scheduling that would live inside a long-running server and provide
> "cron"-like facilities? This would seem like an attractive gadget that
> could be plugged in to any kind of server and then managed with a web app
> (if the server is a servlet container), as a JINI service, or whatever.
>
> IIRC correctly, Turbine, Avalon, and others have implementations of this
> kind of thing -- it would be nice to work together for the "commons" good
> :-).
>
> Craig
