[Springframework-developer] Spring and crons/triggers

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Hello !

 

I am new with cron and get into troubles to develop some crons or rather
simple triggers:

 

My program lets a user filling a form to create a person. This person needs
to be stored in a database (its properties: name, email, username,
password...etc). But I would like this person to be created later for
example the 10th of September 2006 at 8am or in 2 weeks exactly. Then I will
need a cron to create automatically this person in the database at the
chosen date. Trying to understand how to do that with Spring I read
http://www.springframework.org/docs/reference/scheduling.html and I was
obtaining some xml file and code like this:

<bean name="createPersonJob"
class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.JobDe tailBean">
<property name="jobClass" value="org.alfresco.web.bean.EthicFlow_Jobs.Create
PersonJob"/>
<property name="jobDataAsMap">
<map>
    <entry key="record" value=""/> <!--the name of the record where I have
the new person properties: stay empty and when we launch      a cron we will
set a value to record--> 
</map>
</property>
</bean>


<bean id="simpleTrigger" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.Simpl
eTriggerBean">
<!-- see the example of method invoking job above -->
<property name="jobDetail" ref="jobDetail"/>
<!-- 10 seconds -->
<property name="startDelay" value="10000"/>
<!-- repeat every 50 seconds -->
<property name="repeatInterval" value="50000"/>
</bean>

<bean id="cronTrigger" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.CronT
riggerBean">
<property name="jobDetail" ref="exampleJob"/>
<!-- run every morning at 6 AM -->
<property name="cronExpression" value="0 0 6 * * ?"/>
</bean>

<bean class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.Sched ulerFactoryBean">
<property name="triggers">
<list>
<ref bean="cronTrigger"/>
<ref bean="simpleTrigger"/>
</list>
</property>
</bean>

public class EthicFlow_CreatePersonJob extends QuartzJobBean 
{

private String record;

/**
* Setter called after the CreateJob is instantiated
* with the value from the JobDetailBean (5)
*/ 
public void setRecord(String record) {
this.record = record;
}

protected void executeInternal(JobExecutionContext ctx)

throws JobExecutionException {

// do the actual work

}
}

Is it correct? But then how is this cron launched?
EthicFlow_CreatePersonJob.executeInternal()??
Did I miss something? I have no choice than using cronTrigger rather than
simpleTrigger if I want to define a date to launch a cron?

Thanks in advance for your help

Best,

Sophie Jarlier