What is the best solution to perform scheduled tasks in Java, whatever the OS?

Question

I\'d like to generate alarms on my Java desktop application :

• alarms set with a specific date/time which can be in 5 minutes or 5 months
• I need to be able

Answer 1

I believe your scenario is correct. Since services are system specific things, IMHO you should not user a generic package to cover them all, but have a specific mechanism for every system.