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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Andy Engle <st...@andyengle.com> on 2004/03/01 21:53:12 UTC
Starting time-consuming jobs early
Hi all,
It looks like I am going to be involved with a project where the goal
is to gather a bunch of product information from multiple databases,
and then mix-n-match (a highly-technical term there) all that data to
ultimately generate some metrics charts. It seems that making this a
web application would be good here becuase several groups within this
company X can then share this information. But since it will take so
long to get the results, I'm wondering if there is some sort of way
using servlets or whatever that I can have this job kick off at maybe
midnight on Friday night so that all the data will be freshly available
on Monday morning when it would be needed. I've considered maybe using
a cron job to fire off a Perl script to do all the work, and then load
the database with the data that would be replaced each week. But, I'd
be interested in knowing if I could have it setup some slick way with
Struts/Servlets/etc.
Thanks,
Andy
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Re: Starting time-consuming jobs early
Posted by David Erickson <de...@cmcflex.com>.
You ought to be able to make a struts plugin or a servlet thats loaded by
your webserver that starts a thread that watches for a certain time each
week then wakes up and does stuff..
-David
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From: "Andy Engle" <st...@andyengle.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: Starting time-consuming jobs early
> Hi all,
>
> It looks like I am going to be involved with a project where the goal
> is to gather a bunch of product information from multiple databases,
> and then mix-n-match (a highly-technical term there) all that data to
> ultimately generate some metrics charts. It seems that making this a
> web application would be good here becuase several groups within this
> company X can then share this information. But since it will take so
> long to get the results, I'm wondering if there is some sort of way
> using servlets or whatever that I can have this job kick off at maybe
> midnight on Friday night so that all the data will be freshly available
> on Monday morning when it would be needed. I've considered maybe using
> a cron job to fire off a Perl script to do all the work, and then load
> the database with the data that would be replaced each week. But, I'd
> be interested in knowing if I could have it setup some slick way with
> Struts/Servlets/etc.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
>
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Re: Starting time-consuming jobs early
Posted by am...@pgmsystems.com.
Quartz might work for you
http://www.quartzscheduler.org
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Hi all,
It looks like I am going to be involved with a project where the goal
is to gather a bunch of product information from multiple databases,
and then mix-n-match (a highly-technical term there) all that data to
ultimately generate some metrics charts. It seems that making this a
web application would be good here becuase several groups within this
company X can then share this information. But since it will take so
long to get the results, I'm wondering if there is some sort of way
using servlets or whatever that I can have this job kick off at maybe
midnight on Friday night so that all the data will be freshly available
on Monday morning when it would be needed. I've considered maybe using
a cron job to fire off a Perl script to do all the work, and then load
the database with the data that would be replaced each week. But, I'd
be interested in knowing if I could have it setup some slick way with
Struts/Servlets/etc.
Thanks,
Andy
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