Execute a task every year in a Java web application

Question

How to execute a task every year in a web application automatically? Is the Timer class helpful for this? I also heard about Quartz? I registered in their page but it seems not to be free. Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Quartz is definitely a good option, it is free and opensource and uses the Apache 2.0 License (you don't have to register to download). You can also simply use cron if you are in a *nix environment.

You can also use a java.util.Timer but I would only do so if your use case is extremely trivial and you make sure you restart your Timer correctly based on some type of persistence layer on startup of your web app.