RE: [Wrapper-user] Regarding the service

[Sal I. <sal...@sy...>]

i've been using it since 98/99 to perform nightly/weekendly builds.

don't remember having any problems with it.

yeah -- i don't know why there are so many other schedulers out there
either -- i've even seen some that sell for money and don't even have as
many options as "at" .

also note that there are some schedulers on sourceforge.  i remember there
is a cross-platform scheduler that supports cron expressions.

you suggested the option to schedule the recurring job within the app.
The java Timer is not the best choice because it can't schedule events at a
time-of-day without some extra programming...
but fortunately there is "quartz", a java based scheduler that supports cron
expressions, simple recurring jobs, persistence, app-server integration.
and the best part: it is hosted on sourceforge.

-----Original Message-----
From: wra...@li...
[mailto:wra...@li...]On Behalf Of Leif
Mortenson
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:54 AM
To: wra...@li...
Subject: Re: [Wrapper-user] Regarding the service


Sal,
    Thanks, learn something new every day.   It was preinstalled on my
XP(Home Edition)
box.  That looks fairly useful.  I wonder why there appears to be such a
large market for
tools that effectively do the same thing though...  Are there problems
with this tool?   I
played with it a bit and it seems to work fine so far.

Cheers,
Leif

Sal Ingrilli wrote:

>i've always used "at", the windows scheduler.  run "at" from a command
>prompt.
>i believe on some windows installations it is not installed automatically
>(just add it from the windows cd).
>with this you can schedule recurring jobs, like a daily .bat (or wrapper -c
>wrapper.conf) at a given time.
>with this you can also schedule jobs on system events like
startup/shutdown.
>
>the "at" scheduler also has a UI. to get to the windows scheduler on my xp
>box i click on this:
>Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Scheduled Tasks
>
>also, last time i used a win98 box i found that it has a very similar
>scheduler to "at", but not quite like it.
>i ended up using it to simulate services by scheduling "wrapper -c
>wrapper.conf" on system startup.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wra...@li...
>[mailto:wra...@li...]On Behalf Of Leif
>Mortenson
>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:08 PM
>To: wra...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Wrapper-user] Regarding the service
>
>
>Sal Ingrilli wrote:
>
>
>
>>you don't need the service wrapper.
>>
>>just use the windows/unix scheduler to schedule execution of a batch
>>file that runs your program
>>
>>
>
>UNIX has cron jobs, but what exists on Windows.  I had actually looked
>for something a
>while back and was only able to locate a few overpriced commercial
>solutions.   I ended
>up having the Java program running 24x7, but with its main thread in a
>wait state until the
>time that the actual job needed to run.
>
>Doing a google search on "Windows Scheduler" turns up several options
>now.  A couple
>have free versions as well.
>
>Leif
>
>




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