Hello, 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 lot of guys saying "Don't do this ... don't do that... Remove the the threads from your webapp ..." offering no explanations.
I can always schedule a cron job and start some utility which would perform the transactions but having it all in java and all in one war is cool. 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. Velja
