Passing a Tomcat JNDI context to a jCrontab task

[Steven Elliott <tt...@mac.com>]

Apologies if this is too off topic.

I am looking at using the jCrontab servlet to do some task scheduling most
of which has to do with mailing reports generated from data in the
application's database.  Although I could do this using the Class.forName()
paradigm I would like to use the same Datasource pool I have already
running.  In order to obtain a reference though, I need the InitialContext.

There seems to be three ways to approach this problem but I am not sure
which are possible much less which may be best.

The first seems to be to have jCrontab make a call to a class which somehow
obtains the InitialContext reference.  My problem is knowing how to access
the Tomcat Context from an application which does not have a implied
reference to the Tomcat context such as a Bean or Servlet would have.

The second seems to be to pass a reference of the Context to the application
but I am not sure it is possible for jCrontab to do that?

The third would be for jCrontab to somehow invoke a servlet or Bean within
the Tomcat context but after studying the Tests suite and reading through
the documentation I am at a loss of how to invoke a class which does not
have main method.

If anyone has a suggestion or even where I might find one I'd appreciate the
hint.

Thanks,

Steven 


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