[Building Sakai] Why not just use quartz?
David Horwitz
david.horwitz at uct.ac.za
Fri May 17 05:44:49 PDT 2013
As I understand it was done because at the time cluster support didn't
exist in Sakai ...
D
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 10:21 +0100, Matthew Buckett wrote:
> On the CLE team call yesterday this ticket came up:
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> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23130
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> An when looking at this I wondered why Sakai seems to have it's own
> scheduled invokation manager which stores in a table a list of jobs to
> be run at some point in the future and every x seconds a quartz jobs
> fires which runs any jobs that need to be run and then removes them
> from the table.
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> Does anyone know why we didn't just use quartz as wouldn't it be
> easier to just create the jobs in quartz with simple triggers as that
> what it's designed for.
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> I've had a quick look in jira/svn but can't find anything about why
> this implementation was taken.
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> Having the API seems sensible so that callers don't bind directly
> against quartz, but it would seem sensible to have the implementation
> just proxy requests directly through to quartz.
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> Matthew Buckett, VLE Developer, IT Services, University of Oxford
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