The Scheduler is modeled after Unix Cron. The Scheduler runs as a background process that executes timed scheduled tasks independently of HTTP requests. Tasks are stored in the database in the TURBINE_SCHEDULED_JOB table and once entered in the database are loaded automatically when Turbine initializes.
For the Scheduler to load classes that extend the ScheduledJob Class, the scheduler needs to be enabled via the TurbineResources.properties file, where the directive scheduler.enabled needs to be set to true.
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