Use linux crontab in j2ee app?

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

My company makes CloudQuartz (www.thecloudblocks.com) which allows you to schedule the jobs through an API and get callbacks when they are due to run.

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