scheduler for standalone application?

Question

What sheduler do you recomand for standalone java console application?

Is Quartz the only option?

I want to execute tasks every x minutes and raport the return of operation in a text file.

Answer 1

You can use java.util.Timer or java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService for this task

Answer 2

If you are using a Java EE application server, you can use an EJB @Timer for this.

Answer 3

Quartz is a commonly used scheduler library. However it sounds like you need something really simple. Can you just do something like this? (pseudocode)

while (!some_termination_condition) {
   Result r = doTask();
   logResult(r);
   Thread.sleep (x_minutes*60*1000);
}