Where is the job support in Play 2.0?

Question

In Play 1.0, we can define some jobs which will be executed in the background:

@OnApplicatonStart
@Every("1h")
public class DataJob extends Job {
    public void doJob() {
       // ...
    }
}

But I can't find it in Play 2.0. Do I miss something?

Answer 1

You could use the scheduler service in akka.

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0/java/scheduler.html

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0/scala/scheduler.html

Basically you create an actor that executes your logic if it receives a certain message.