Couple of questions regardin the scheduler plug in.
I have a solution that requires use of some chron jobs and would like some clarification on the following:
What is the best way to add the jobs to a live solution? As part of a login/startup script? (User logs on, checks which jobs are running, if none, starts the jobs.)
Do the jobs persist even when all users are logged off? (I am presuming yes.)
What is the best way to add the jobs to a live solution? As part of a login/startup script? (User logs on, checks which jobs are running, if none, starts the jobs.)
Depends what you want to do and when but I would say on startup makes sense…
Do the jobs persist even when all users are logged off? (I am presuming yes.)
No, when you need persistence I would say do this within a Batch Processor…
Where can I find out more about Batch Processors?
Also, are chron jobs user specific? ie can 2 users be running the same chron job at the same time?
You can check out the Quartz java project to find out more about the scheduler plugin. The plugin is based on this project (I believe this is also mentioned in the Servoy docs).
You can name each job so you can make it as unique as you want. It always runs from the machine it was initiated on (local)…