Autonomous code

Here is an interesting question that I have not found an answer yet. What is the best way to have a piece of code running in an application server environment be autonomous? For instance, a piece of code that would wake up every night at midnight to do some background processing, etc. Obviously it would be possible to write this code externally to the app server and run it under cron, etc. But I was wondering if anyone had set up anything to execute within the server to handle this type of need?

Marcus

[527 byte] By [mzarra] at [2007-9-30 15:24:45]