Task Scheduling in Java EE 6 on GlassFish using the Timer Service
Creating cronjobs or scheduled service executions is made really easy in Java EE 6. Scheduled tasks may be created in a programmatic style or simply by adding some annotations to an EJB. In the following tutorial we’re creating some simple scheduled tasks and let them run on an embedded GlassFish instance using the Maven Embedded GlassFish plugin.. Java EE 6 Maven Project from Archetype First of all we’re creating a new maven-ized project using one of the appropriate jee6 Maven archetypes ...