----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:29 PM
Subject: Job Scheduling Package?
> 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
> :-).
>
+1 for a job scheduling component in commons !
I've been looking for this kind of things and could only find commercial
products (essentially Flux and another one that I cannot remember).
> Craig
Vincent
