How to execute a task every year in a web application automatically? Is the Timer class helpful for this? I also heard about Quartz? I registered in their page but it seems not to be free. Thank you for your help.
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How to execute a task every year in a web application automatically? Is the Timer class helpful for this? I also heard about Quartz? I registered in their page but it seems not to be free. Thank you for your help.
I would suggest that you use something like cron. Your requirement is very similar to the UNIX cron daemon’s activity. There is a java library that provide the same capability called cron4j (http://www.sauronsoftware.it/projects/cron4j/).
Below are some schedulers that you can use.