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Subject: Re: Fire off asynch task in Tomcat.
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Christopher Schultz wrote:
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> Eric,
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> On 7/22/2010 7:41 PM, Eric P wrote:
>> I'll probably go w/the email queue/database table approach.  All the
>> points André and Christopher raised gave me further insight into the
>> robustness of this approach (loose coupling w/the app, no extra lib
>> dependencies, emails not lost if the app goes down, etc.).  Also, the
>> email queue table can serve as a nice log of emails processed.
> 
> Heh, I hadn't thought of that point, which is an excellent one.
> 
> Another (potential) advantage of using a database to hold the "queue" is
> that you can then choose some other programming language to do the
> actual email sending if that's more convenient for you.
> 
Too late, that suggestion was already made :
".. it does not even depend on the programming language used to write the email-sending job.."

You can of course imagine which language I was thinking of.

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