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Chapter 14. Scheduler service
The Scheduler service was previously introduced in WebSphere Application
Server V5.0 Enterprise Edition. This service extends the normal J2EE services
by introducing time-driven actions. These actions can be scheduled to run once,
in the future, or on a recurring basis at regular intervals.
The advantages of using the Scheduler service are as follows:
The service facilitates the development of date- or time-based functionality.
This feature of WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation can be
applied to various scenarios which are listed in this chapter as ...