What’s the best/easiest way to run periodic tasks (like a daemon thread) on a tomcat/jetty server? How do I start the thread? Is there a simple mechanism or is this a bad idea at all?
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What’s the best/easiest way to run periodic tasks (like a daemon thread) on a tomcat/jetty server? How do I start the thread? Is there a simple mechanism or is this a bad idea at all?
It’s okay and effective to stash a java.util.Timer (or better yet ScheduledExecutor) instance in your ServeletContext. Create it in a Servlet’s init() call and all your servlets can add TimerTasks to it.