TimerHttpTask is a simple web application to execute HTTP endpoints at fixed periods. It is a simple task scheduler. Packaged as a Java WAR file, TimerHttpTask can be deployed into any servlet container. Use it to run HTTP tasks on a continuous schedule.
Java provides a facility to schedule tasks for repeated execution in the background. The facility uses a Timer object to schedule TimerTask implementation(s). The Timer object manages the task life cycle: run, cancel and purge. Tasks can be scheduled to run at fixed delays or at fixed rates.
See Timer.
The Timer facility runs implementations of TimerTask to define the job execution. This project implements TimerTask as an HttpTask to execute web methods. The task gets a web method and logs the results.
See TimerTask.
When TimerHttpTask starts, it looks for a JNDI entry at java:comp/env/timer/httptask. The entry represents a java.util.Properties object, a list of name-value pairs.
Each JDNI property provides a key (job name) and value TYPE|DELAY|PERIOD|URL where:
TYPE = FD (fixed delay) or FR (fixed rate).
DELAY = initial offset in milliseconds.
PERIOD = time between invocations in milliseconds.
URL = the HTTP endpoint.
The task response page at http://host:port/timer/httptask cycles through the latest response from each HttpTask.
