Has anyone investigated the use of servlets to carry out periodic tasks? I
have a servlet through which users can select topics on which they want to
be emailed regularly. I was thinking that it might be neat if instead of
using cron to do this, I had a separate thread in the servlet, or perhaps a
separate servlet periodically wake up and send out emails and then go back
to sleep.
Does this sound like a daft idea, or has someone out there already done
something like this?
Thanks,
Ben
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