Louis-David Mitterrand <cunctator@apartia.ch> writes:
>
> Indeed I wasn't making much sense talking of mod_perl handlers to
> perform DB maintenance :) The reason I came to thinking about them is
> because cron jobs appear as less elegant and integrated with the whole
> application, they appear as external crutch filling a missing DB
> functionality (running scheduled tasks).
>
I too try too avoid cron with my customers. I tend too look at running
scheduled tasks as an application issue and I usually have a component of
the application performing these tasks. That's easy too implement using
Java, but I'm not sure how to implement in mod_perl.
regards,
Gunnar
