Have you looked at Spring Batch  ;-)
--- In to-jbug@yahoogroups.com, Phillip Mills <phillip.mills1@...> wrote:
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> ----- Message from dbrum123@... ---------
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> > Sorry for the long absence... who's still active here besides the
> > spammers?
>
> I can't claim to be very active, but I still monitor the list for
> anything JBoss related and use the software daily. (I'm currently
> trying to figure out what flavour of scheduler module to use -- and how
> -- in order to handle 'batch' processing of user-initiated report
> requests, which may be one-shot or may be recurring.)
>