Question

Just a quick question about the above subject. Basically, I’m writing a piece of software which captures data from the network and writes it to an external file for further processing.

What I want to know is what code would be the best to use in order to get this desired effect.

Thanks for your time

David

Answer 1

I’d probably implement it using a TimerTask. E.g.,

int hour = 1000*60*60;
int delay = 0;
Timer t = new Timer();

t.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
    public void run() {
        // Write to disk ...
    }
}, delay, hour);

Otherwise quarts is a powerful java scheduler which is capable of handling more advanced scheduling needs.