Re: Starting background thread in contextInitialized ...

2006-09-04 Thread Darryl Miles
Andrés González wrote: Maybe a little OT, but: do you think it is a good "architecture" to have such a background thread processing those records periodically?. YMMV. For me I have many jobs running, some timed on a regular schedule, some timed and/or triggered from events (message passing),

Re: Starting background thread in contextInitialized ...

2006-09-04 Thread Andrés González
Maybe a little OT, but: do you think it is a good "architecture" to have such a background thread processing those records periodically?. I mean, wouldn't it be preferable to create a separate process (another JVM) which would execute that thread? That way your design is more modular, and you can

Re: Starting background thread in contextInitialized ...

2006-09-04 Thread Velja Radenkovic
Thanks, I'm running tests on 2 machines and I'll share the results and concept in case of sucess or ask for more help in case of failure. I'll stick to starting background thread for now. Thanks again, Velja

Re: Starting background thread in contextInitialized ...

2006-09-03 Thread Darryl Miles
Velja Radenkovic wrote: I need to periodicaly (12 hrs) check few thousands of database records and to perform some transactions. My first intention was to start a thread in contextInitialized for this purpose. After searching the internet (including this mailing list), I'm in doubt. There are l

Re: Starting background thread in contextInitialized ...

2006-09-03 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
Velja Radenkovic wrote: What I'm looking for are pros, cons and experiences for implementing ServletContextListener and starting a thread in contextInitialized. Thread neads to perform 1 min processing every 12 hrs. Reliability is most important aspect. Google for MBean timer. You can also use