sourceforge.net), RLIB (http://rlib.sicompos.com), SpoolTemplate for the
PHP crowd (www.andrioli.com/en/sptpl.html??”notice the LCARS theme to the web site, the perfect
tie-in to this chapter), and, of course, Business Objects/Crystal products (www.businessobjects.com).
See, I can??™t be all that biased if I mentioned all these!
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4. OK, I know it??™s not Star Trek, but still . . . in the Futurama (one of the best cartoons ever made) episode
???The Luck of The Fryrish,??? Professor Farnsworth exclaims, ???No fair! You changed the output by measuring
it!??? as a horse race he was watching ended in a ???quantum finish.??? If you got the reference, kudos!
If you got the joke, even more kudos!
Quartz
Like reporting, scheduling is something that comes up often enough in the enterprise, and
very often it goes hand-in-hand with reporting as a matter of fact. And like with reporting,
there??™s tons of options, ranging from the good ole cron command to the Windows Task Scheduler
to OpalisRobot (www.aprompt.com/opalis.htm). But what about scheduling within an
application? Oftentimes that means some sort of custom thread-based mechanism, which
often works out just fine, but sometimes it??™s more work than you??™d really like.
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