Hi, I need to execute some time intensive batch jobs in my application, such as periodically loading data from a file into a database, happening at regular intervals and taking maybe 10-20 minutes. I am thinking about where I should put the logic, inside a Spring Manager bean that I access with a web service, or if I should just write a simple command line program to do this.
I of course would prefer to have it within my appfuse project since then I can use my existing model/dao classes and have all my code base in one place. But I am a little afraid that there might be some pitfalls in running such a heavy batch job within the web container and accessed through a web service, for example timeout and performance problems. I would love to get some feedback on that. Also am I maybe missing a better way, is there for instance some way of calling a method of a Spring Manager bean in appfuse directly from the command line? It would of course need to be setup in the same way (all decencies injected). best regards, Magnus
