Scheduling Pls Help

[allen turner]

Hai
I want to update a database on a daily basis using java at some predefined times of the day. is this possible? What i am looking at is some kind of a cron job like facility like in linux.
Thanks
Bye

[Fei Ng]

just a idea,
have a cron runs a shell script which runs java program.
or just have a perl or shell script do it directly.

[Shubhrajit Chatterjee]

For any UNIX system you can write a cron job as specifed in the previous reply. If u use windows NT then create a new scheduled task to invoke a batch file which invokes Java.
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Shubhrajit

[allen turner]

Thanks!
But i want to do it from java so that i need not depend on the facility given by the platform like NT or linux. if i can do it in java no matter waht the platform it will work!!. So i specifically need it in java.
Bye

[Michael Ernest]

Of course you can do this, and event handling is the way to do it. Think about it this way: you have a Cron object (hey why not, the word's not copyrighted) that will tell other objects when a time they have expressed interest in comes around. When it happens, the Cron class creates a TimedEvent object, and sends it as a parameter to a Listener that knows what job needs to be performed.
For a task like this you don't really need OS services. Your VM does, of course, but that's already built into it.
Is that enough to go on?
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Michael Ernest, co-author of: The Complete Java 2 Certification Study Guide

[allen turner]

Thanks
I think i can work on that idea. Is there any useful jars that can do all this kind of things?
Thanks

[Chidda]

Allen,
JDK1.3 exposes couple of classes java.util.Timer and java.util.TimerTask that actually does the job of Scheduling (It is rudimentary thread based implementation). It is pretty simple to build a robust client around Timer and TimerTask.
Hope this helps.
Chidda