That pretty much answers my question, I was concerned with how well Java
and cron would play together or any other possible issues that could
arise running Java via cron. I am leaning towards Java for two reasons,
Java's exception handling and it is the direction that we are moving.
Thanks for the response.
Erick

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 15:42 -0600, Adam Monsen wrote:
> Could you be more specific about what this cron job will do?
> 
> I would generally recommend Python (or Bash) for cron jobs that perform
> system administration tasks. But if you already have Java knowledge in
> your group or need to integrate tightly with existing Java-based
> infrastructure, then of course maybe Java is the stronger choice. Java
> and cron play nice together... no problems there that I can think of.
> 
> Also consider, when making your decision on which language to use: it's
> easy to run a system command (like "find", "grep", etc) in Python,
> collect the output, process it, etc. In Java, calling out to system
> commands is bad form... "pure Java" (or Java+JNI) is the way most folks
> prefer it would be done, IMHO. Another example: pure Java can't
> manipulate UNIX signals.
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