[Off-topic] How to trigger an EJB method periodically

[batistella]

Hello.

We have an EJB method (in weblogic 8.1) that must be executed periodically (eg: every minute). My doubt is how to invoke this method periodically. I was thinking about create a simple client to invoke the method and schedule it in the machine crontab.

Is there any better solution?

Thanks

[wpoitras]

Yes. You can create a quartz job to invoke your EJB. The reference manual should be a good place to start.

[karldmoore]

I would agree with Bill. There are a few ways of solving the problem, the reference manual has several examples that should be of use. Something like MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean might be of use.
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...cheduling.html

[batistella]

Using Quartz bring me a problem.
If my support team wants to stop this batch procecess?
They need to stop my application? I think it's more confortable to them just to comment a line in the crontab.
How do you see this?

Thanks

[karldmoore]

You don't have to stop the server if you want to stop the job. You can unschedule jobs.

[batistella]

How can I unschedule my job? JMX?
I'm using Weblogic 8.1 with Java 1.4. Is this possible?

Thanks