Scheduling Email Notifications
I'm fairly new to EE development, so forgive me if the answer to this question should be obvious to me.
I want to be able to schedule a task to start at a predetermined time. Basically, I need the Java EE equivalent of the cron service on Unix systems. One example: I need to run a few DB queries and then send an email summary of the results each day at noon.
How do I go about doing this in Java EE?
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codebooka] at [2007-11-27 10:49:48]
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The EJB specification defines a timer service that can be used to create single-timeout or periodic
timeout events that callback into a session bean or message-driven bean.Once inside this method,
you can write any of the same business logic you could write in a regular business method, so
interacting with a database and/or sending mail using the java mail API would work well.
Here's an entry from the Java EE tutorial on the EJB timer service :
http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/Session4.html
--ken
ksaksa at 2007-7-29 11:21:30 >
