Where is JBoss AS heading in terms of scheduling ?

[fredatwork]

Hello,

I'm interested in knowing where JBoss is heading regarding job scheduling .

I read in an older post (back in 2003) that Scott Stark seemed, a while ago, be willing to use Quartz as JBoss scheduler and that this would effect EJB Timer Service as well. ? What is the status on this issue ?

Can anyone explain where JBoss is heading in terms of scheduling service ?

It would be nice to know what are JBoss engineer's thoughts about scheduling considering :

- JBoss version 3 already offered some basic scheduling services. This service was based on java.util.Timer and java.util.TimerTask utility classes.

- JBoss AS 4 and EJB 2.1 offer now the timer bean which deprecate former scheduling service of JBoss version 3 (does it really ?)

- There are more complete scheduling offererings in the open source market, such as Quartz.

What is JBoss strategy on this subject ?

Fred

[casadelnorte]

This is a great question - did you ever get an answer? Any current links?

I'm completely puzzled about the "right" way to schedule services in JBoss.

[fredatwork]

No one at JBoss Inc. answered to this question yet.

It would be nice if someone could ? Can Scott Stark answer to this topic (it is related to JBoss implementation strategy?

ps: in the meantime, I rely on Quartz tfor scheduling my services. See [url]http://www.quartzscheduler.org/

[starksm64]

Its not a big roadmap item since there are numerous ways to do scheduling including the direct use of quartz. If someone wants to provide an enhanced quartz integration service that could bump up looking at quartz as a basis.