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Re: How could I implement and deploy a background process in Glassfish?

From: Jose Noheda <jose.noheda_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:36:55 +0100

Every time I have tried to make the timer API to work I've given up and
revert to just using Quartz. Spring helps here as well

Regards

On Jan 14, 2008 6:58 PM, <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org> wrote:

> The others are valid suggestions, but you could probably get things done
> more easily by just using the EJB Timer Service.
>
> It's your application, but you can easily creating a timer task that runs
> every, say, 5 or 10 seconds, to do your polling.
>
> The benefit is that your code is a generic, everyday session bean. You
> need to write a little of plumbing logic to prime the EJB timer, but once
> it's up, the rest is pretty much the same.
>
> Rumor has it in EJB 3.1, this will be even easier to do as well.
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