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Re: Once again -> Glassfish vs. JBoss

From: Ryan de Laplante <ryan_at_ijws.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:34:20 -0400

Wayne Fay wrote:
>> An other option is to use different open source technologies such as
>> JBoss Seam until Java EE 6. I haven't looked much into the equivalent
>> of an EJB timer that is cluster aware and does cron-like scheduling.
>
> I'm not certain if it will fulfill your specific requirements, but we
> use Quartz very successfully in our J2EE apps for cron-like
> scheduling, and it is absolutely cluster-aware and supports JTA.
>
> Wayne
Thanks! I have heard of Quartz but not spent any time looking at it.
That was the one I was going to investigate first.


Ryan