Topic: Is it efficient to run a Timer in application bean in a web project?

Is it efficient to run a Timer in application bean in a web project?

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Posted By: Debasis_Roy
Posted On: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 01:48 AM

I have to run a Timer that runs with a period of 24 hours and do some tasks. I want to add this timer in application bean of my netbeans visual web pack project. Will it cause the sun application server to be overburdened ?

Please, comment on this problem. Thanks in advance.

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Re: Is it efficient to run a Timer in application bean in a web project?

Posted By: Robert_Lybarger
Posted On: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 08:56 AM

On the surface of things, its probably doable. (It is basically just a Thread that sleeps around for a while and calls back when finished.) But I'd offer a counter-suggestion to use your operating system's concept of a "scheduled task" (commonly in UNIX parlance, a "cron job"). Rig up a requesst URL that [only] the scheduled task can call to get your periodic job done.

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