I am currently implementing MBeans to schedule several classes. For that purpose, I am using the javax.management.timer.Timer class as timer.

Here you can see an exemple:

Code:

<mbean code="javax.management.timer.Timer"
name="app.timer:service=Scheduler">
</mbean>

<mbean code="org.jboss.varia.scheduler.Scheduler"
name="app.timer:service=TheScheduler">
<attribute name="StartAtStartup">true</attribute>
<attribute name="SchedulableClass">myClass</attribute>
<attribute name="SchedulableArgumentTypes">MyTypes</attribute>
<attribute name="SchedulableArguments">MyArgs</attribute>
<attribute name="InitialStartDate">01/01/1970 22:00</attribute>
<attribute name="SchedulePeriod">86400000</attribute>
<attribute name="InitialRepetitions">-1</attribute>
<depends>app.timer:service=Scheduler</depends>
</mbean>

The execution of the class takes 15 minutes (it finishes at 22:15), which makes the second execution start at 22:15 the following day, whereas we need it to be started at 22:00.