Java 9 Programming Blueprints

Building the service

One of the stated goals of this project is to be able to define rules to manage and filter email, and to have it run more or less all the time, not just when the email client is running. (There is, of course, not much we can do about the machine running this being turned off, so we can't promise constant coverage). To fulfill this part of the promise, we'll need a few extra parts. We already have the part of the system that does the actual work, but we also need a way to run that part on a schedule, and we also need a part that will start the scheduled job.

For the scheduling aspect, we have many options, but we'll use a library called Quartz. The Quartz Job Scheduling Library is an open source library that can be used ...