Use linux crontab in j2ee app

I have been using Quartz for over a year to schedule jobs in my app. I now have a new requirement to get rid of quarts, and instead use crontab. I have no experience in this area. How do I design something in my app that allows a job to be called by开发者_高级运维 the operating system? Do I need to create a URL for each job that the OS can call?

you could define simple rest or soap services (using apache-cxf or axis2 for example) and call the from a ruby- or pythonscript

My company makes CloudQuartz (www.thecloudblocks.com) which allows you to schedule the jobs through an API and get callbacks when they are due to run.

It might be useful to what you're trying to do.