[ot] Quartz ?

[Tom Zeller]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Brent Putman <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
> I'm not Walter, but you may recall I mentioned awhile back that I have
> used Quartz here at GU.  Not a guru/expert, but pretty familiar.   I
> had brought up using Quartz as a possible replacement for our use of
> Timer/TimerTasks for background tasks and so on.

Similar experience here. We (Memphis) were hesitant to use Quartz at
first, hence my question to Walter. IIRC we used XML files to control
job scheduling, and it seemed so much better than cron or Timers.

I don't think replacing Timers in v3 is on the roadmap, but maybe it's
something someone could work on as part of approaching the v3 code,
and would be useful given the issues with Timers and Tomcat's
complaining about them.