Java EE Compatible Polling Solution?
All,
We recently discovered that there are a mish-mosh of solutions in our code to address polling. Basically, when a truly latent request is issued, we would prefer callback. However, not all third-party vendors support (or, more importantly, guarantee) callback. In these situations, we resort to polling the third-party vendor over regular intervals to determine whether a request has finished processing and a response is available. (Hence, the operation involved is asynchronous).
My question is: what industrial grade polling solutions have you all used and would recommend? The general requirements would be:
> Compliant for use in a J2EE container
> Ideally, integrates easily with JMS and MDB's
> Allows for fine-grained control (e.g., repeat three times every ten minutes and then give up, continue polling until a response is received, etc.)
The product I am most familiar with is Quartz Scheduler. Any other ideas and/or recommendations?
Thanks!
- Saish
