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Subject: RE: How to run servlet for every 30 minutes in Tomcat 4.1.30
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:28:49 -0000
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Thread-Topic: How to run servlet for every 30 minutes in Tomcat 4.1.30
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From: "Allistair Crossley" <Allistair.Crossley@QAS.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>

no, and I believe doing so it bad practice. use some OS controlled timer li=
ke cron to issue a HTTP call to your servlet. I once wrote a shell script t=
hat calls a http address on the local machine but cannot remember how ;) if=
 you are using oracle then you can setup this timer thread inside the datab=
ase itself. don't add a thread into your web application.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shilpa Nalgonda [mailto:snalgonda@mypublisher.com]
> Sent: 21 December 2004 16:14
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: RE: How to run servlet for every 30 minutes in Tomcat 4.1.30
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> Thanks for the reply...
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> The application which i am trying to write is a standalone=20
> utility.. Client
> does not hit this servlet.
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> Instead my application which is a servlet, will make some=20
> database calls--
> and if the required data is present in the database, then=20
> that data is sent
> to the client via xmlrpc call and the response from the xmlrpc call is
> updated back into the dataabse.
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> So we want this utility preferably servlet in our Tomcat=20
> container to be run
> every 30 minutes like a cron job, to do the database updates..
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> There are so many other classes deployed on Tomcat and i want=20
> to use those
> classes to write this servlet utility.
> This is the reason why chose to use servlet, but is there any=20
> configurable
> parameter to run servlet for every 30 minutes...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wade Chandler [mailto:wchandler@redesetgrow.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:03 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: How to run servlet for every 30 minutes in Tomcat 4.1.30
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> Shilpa Nalgonda wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using Tomcat4.1.30 version.
> > I have to develop a client application which looks in the=20
> database every
> 30
> > minutes,
> > to retrieve the status of an order and send the status to the remote
> client.
> > Again waits for the
> > The client's response and insert the repsonse back to the database.
> >
> > I wanted to do this in a servlet, so is there any way that=20
> i could run
> this
> > servlet automatically inside the
> > Tomcat container, or is it configurable in servlet mapping?=20
> if so can
> > someone please suggest me with examples...
> >
> >
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> >
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> Well....it's kind of not extremely clear what you are asking, but why
> does the servlet need to do anything except listen for a=20
> client which is
> threaded to do this every 30 minutes, in other words...why=20
> not have the
> servlet do what it naturally does...sit there and get hit by client
> requests....get the info....and send it back?  I mean...the servlet
> can't push to the client unless you want to use something=20
> besides http,
> or unless you are using servlets on both ends and http servers on both
> ends.  You could use keep alives I guess.....I wouldn't though....only
> so many tcp/ip connections.
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> Wade
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