Quartz is very easy to use. No need for thread programming. But "Job" classes are created as and when they are needed (so no initialisation and shared object).
Create a struts plug-in which initialises quartz, and sets up the jobs (very little code needed). Daniel. > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Siggelkow > Sent: 15 July 2004 14:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Best practice for background service > > > Jan, > Bryan's recommendation of Spring and Quartz sounds good though I have > not had a chance to work with these yet. If you want to "roll your own" > I suggest you look at the java.util.Timer and java.util.TimerTask > objects -- they work well for these type of services. See > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/TimerTask.html. > > Jan Behrens wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > I am coding an app where I rely on a background service to > check regularly > > for new mail. I want to instantiate my service component (the > one checking > > for mail) when the context is loaded and have it running in a background > > thread. I have done only very limited coding with threads so far :( > > > > What I plan to do is to create a controller servlet that is loaded on > > startup and that creates instances of all my services. All > services extend > > Thread and are started by invoking the run() method when the controller > > servlet starts. Would that work? How would I then set the > intervall on which > > my mail service checks for new mail? Could this be done using > > sleep(interval)? > > > > I wonder whether anyone has tips on this for a newbie or if > there is such a > > thing as a best practice on this. > > > > TIA, Jan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
