Scheduling jobs in Weblogic 6.1

[Rohit Poddar]

Hello,
Is there a way to schedule jobs in WLS 6.1 besides the now deprecated Time Services? Or a free third party product?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Rohit

[Chris Mathews]

The preferred way is to use JMX Timer Beans. However, you could also check out Quartz.

[Rohit Poddar]

Thanks Chris.
1) Are these JMX timer beans available in WLS 6.1?
2) Any exapmles / links will greatly help.
Thanks,
Rohit

[Lasse Koskela]

The weblogic.management.timer.Timer JMX bean became available only in 7.0 so you can't use that. I guess Quartz is a good choice.

[Chris Mathews]

Originally posted by Lasse Koskela:
The weblogic.management.timer.Timer JMX bean became available only in 7.0 so you can't use that. I guess Quartz is a good choice.

JMX Timers are available in WLS 6.1 also. In fact, I used them to write a fairly flexible job scheduler for a client about a year ago.
[ October 06, 2003: Message edited by: Chris Mathews ]

[Lasse Koskela]

Originally posted by Chris Mathews:
JMX Timers are available in WLS 6.1 also. In fact, I used them to write a fairly flexible job scheduler for a client about a year ago.

Strange. I didn't see it in the API.
I was also involved in a project last year where we used 6.1 and needed a scheduling system. If JMX Timers really were available, I can't see why the subcontractor wouldn't use those instead of the commercial product which didn't work without heavy hammering.