How can i run a particular code for every 10 minutes

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Hi

I am trying to cache the data to reduce the hits to Daabase.

So for this i am storing the data in application scope .

Please tell me how can i for every 10 minutes clear my Application data and put new data into it.
How can i do this for every 10 minutes .

Thanks .

[Praveen Rajendran]

Hi Ravi,
I guess you can write your caching program in a servlet such that the cache function will be done in a while loop with always true condition. Also the timing interval of caching can be done by using Thread.sleep(time) method defining the interval time in milli seconds. The servlet can be configured to trigger on application startup using web.xml.
Let me know if this makes sense.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Or you could let Java handle it for you. Look at the TimerTask and Timer classes.

Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, start, howOften);

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Thank you all . Its easy to go for Timer and TimerTask .

[Scott Selikoff]

I prefer Java Quartz for scheduling solutions.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Scott,
For anything complex, I prefer Quartz as well. For scheduling one or two simple jobs - I go with TimerTask.