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. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-devel mailing list > tclug-devel at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-devel