Take Java to Task

M any applications, from small to enterprise-sized, schedule tasks to run at set times. A task might be a once-a-day data export from the database at 2 A.M., a reminder e-mail sent two hours after some system event, or a periodic check every two minutes to see if a new file has arrived by FTP into a target directory. Although many off-the-shelf products for managing jobs and tasks in your application exist, developers can quickly build their own lightweight customizable component for...n

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