scheduling APIs (was: Re: [Yanel-dev] Integration of quartz scheduler)

[Guillaume Déflache]

Hi!

As discussed during lunch with Michi I recently came across EJB 3's 
souped-up scheduler support via 
http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/02/jee6_ejb_31
It has not much to do with traditional EJB per se and it's indeed called 
JEE6 Timer service by Sun: 
http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/tutorial/doc/bnboy.html
See also the API (a bit lost among all EJB stuff, maybe this is also 
available in a more modularized fashion somehow): 
http://java.sun.com/javaee/6/docs/api/index.html?javax/ejb/package-summary.html

Maybe this can give us some more inspiration on defining an API?

HTH,
    Guillaume