[xwiki-devs] Questions about the new Job Module in commons

Hi Devs/Thomas, I've just realized that we now have a new job module in commons…. I don't recall seeing a proposal/vote on this but I may just have missed it. I would like to be sure we have considered existing libraries before deciding to full recode it. I've done a very quick google search and I can see for example: * http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Concurrency/jobs-api.html for example * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8738160/eclipse-jobs-api-for-a-stand-alo… says it can be used standalone Also there are lots of job/scheduling apis at: * http://java-source.net/open-source/job-schedulers I think having our own interface is ok (to be independent of any underlying implementation) but we also have our own implementation now too. Something to consider for example is that right now our Scheduler module uses the Quartz API and when we rewrite it I guess the idea will be to use this new job module, right? Thus I assume we'll need to write a "Quartz bridge" to transform XWiki Job instances into Quartz Job instances so that we can execute them with Quartz. Or maybe the integration would be at a different level, in the Job Manager? In any case I'd like to see a bit more information on this job module and be confident that we have thought about all this and documented it on extensions.xwiki.org. Thanks -Vincent