Use linux crontab in j2ee app

Question

I have been using Quartz for over a year to schedule jobs in my app. I now have a new requirement to get rid of quarts, and instead use crontab. I have no experience in this area. How do I design something in my app that allows a job to be called by the operating system? Do I need to create a URL for each job that the OS can call?

Answer 1

you could define simple rest or soap services (using apache-cxf or axis2 for example) and call the from a ruby- or pythonscript