Hi Richard,
Thanks for your valuable input. How about you help us log an issue to
put in all your questions below,
so it can be looked into. Thanks :-)
Judy
Richard Kolb wrote:
> Hi Ludo
>
> 2009/12/3 Ludo <Ludovic.Champenois_at_sun.com
> <mailto:Ludovic.Champenois_at_sun.com>>
>
> Richard Kolb wrote:
>
>
> Hi Judy
>
> I just wanted to say a big thank you the the designers /
> implementers of Java-EE 6 schedules.
> Wow, it's amazing. Our company developed it's own fancy
> scheduler over the last 5 years and this just deprecates it
> all. :)
> The GlassFish scheduler is so simple and elegant.
>
> Just a comment on the Java docs, seem to some missing.
> http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/api/index.html?javax/ejb/TimerService.html
> http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/api/javax/ejb/ScheduleExpression.html
>
> What is missing there?
> Ludo
> I see these 2 pages...The 2nd could have more comments, but the
> api seems very simple...
>
>
> Sorry this should have been there two pages:
> ( I will ask the questions someone reading the Java-Doc may ask)
>
>
> *1) http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/api/javax/ejb/Schedule.html*
>
> hour is a String (is this 24 hour, 12 hour, should I put AM after the
> hour ?)
> info is a String , what is that ?
> timezone is a String , what is that ?
> month is a String , can this be 1, Jan, January, jan etc ?
> day is a String, I know it can't be Thur, it must be Thu ( I only
> found this out by trial and error)
>
>
> Some examples like 'man contab' would be great :
>
> / # MIN HOUR DAY MONTH DAYOFWEEK COMMAND
> # at 6:10 a.m. every day
> 10 6 * * * date
>
> # every two hours at the top of the hour
> 0 */2 * * * date
>
> # every two hours from 11p.m. to 7a.m., and at 8a.m.
> 0 23-7/2,8 * * * date
>
> # at 11:00 a.m. on the 4th and on every mon, tue, wed
> 0 11 4 * mon-wed date
>
> # 4:00 a.m. on january 1st
> 0 4 1 jan * date/
>
>
> *2)
> http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/api/javax/ejb/ScheduleExpression.html*
>
> ScheduleExpression ScheduleExpression::end(java.util.Date e) , what is
> that, how do I use this ? Why does it return another instance of
> ScheduleExpression ? Should this be static ?
>
> ScheduleExpression second(int s), what is that ? Why does it return
> another instance of ScheduleExpression ? Should this be static ?
>
> etc.
>
>
> There are some great docs here :
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-7627/bnbpe?a=view
>
>
> regards
> Richard.
>