Job scheduling using timers in java

[umapathy_sekar]

I am trying to schedule a job using java. By using timer class i can able to specify to schedule at particular time. But I am looking to specify between two dates and also need to specify the time between the two dates. Could someone help me to say how we can use timer class and schedule the task between two dates ?

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

public class Scheduler {

public static Object[] getInput(){
Properties properties = new Properties();
try {
properties.load(new FileInputStream("./property/SchedulerProperties.properties"));
System.out.println(properties);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

String[] datetime = properties.getProperty("startdatetime").split(":") ;

Calendar date = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();

date.set(Calendar.DATE, Integer.parseInt(datetime[0]));
date.set(Calendar.MONTH, Integer.parseInt(datetime[1]));
date.set(Calendar.YEAR, Integer.parseInt(datetime[2]));

date.set(Calendar.HOUR, Integer.parseInt(datetime[3]));
date.set(Calendar.MINUTE, Integer.parseInt(datetime[4]));
date.set(Calendar.SECOND, Integer.parseInt(datetime[5]));
date.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, Integer.parseInt(datetime[6]));

// Schedule to run every Sunday in midnight
// date.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK,Calendar.SUNDAY);
// you can find lot of other options for days and months in calendar object

if(date.before(now)){
date = now;
}

long delaySeconds = Long.parseLong(properties.getProperty("delaysecond s"));
Long delayInSeconds = new Long(delaySeconds);
return new Object[]{date.getTime(),delayInSeconds};
}

public void schedule(TimerTask tt){
Timer timer = new Timer();
Object[] input = getInput();
System.out.println((Long)input[1]);
// timer.schedule(tt,(Date)input[0],(Long)input[1]);
timer.schedule(tt,(Date)input[0]);
//timer.schedule(tt,(Date)input[0],delaySeconds);
}
}

[Norm]

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See the answer at Job Scheduling in java