Best practice for schedule printing of spool requests

Hi there,
I am searching for a method / best practice how to schedule the printing of different spool requests.
The following situation:
A lot of different spool requests are generated in the night, but they should be printed at a specific time in the morning. So I am searching for a method to get the spool requests and print them to a specific printer at a specific time by job.
Thanks ahead,
Bernd

I found a (very old) SAP program RSPO0065 that seems to do just that. However it does not allow overriding the print paramters, so the actual jobs need be scheduled with the correct parameters, most notably the desired printer.
Thomas

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I want to discuss what is the best practice for managed bean usage, especially using session scope or request scope to build database driven pages
---- Session Bean ----
- In the book Core Java Server Faces, the author mentioned that most of the cases session bean should be used, unless the processing is passed on to other handler. Since JSF can store the state on client side, i think storing everything in session is not a big memory concern. (can some expert confirm this is true?) Session objects are easy to manage and states can be shared across the pages. It can make programming easy.
In the case of a page binded to a resultset, the bean usually helds a java.util.List object for the result, which is intialized in the constructor by query the database first. However, this approach has a problem: when user navigates to other page and comes back, the data is not refreshed. You can of course solve the problem by issuing query everytime in your getXXX method. But you need to be very careful that you don't bind this XXX property too many times. In the case of querying in getXXX, setXXX is also tricky as you don't have a member to set. You usually don't want to persist the resultset changes in the setXXX as the changes may not be final, in stead, you want to handle in the actionlistener (like a save(actionevent)).
I would glad to see your thought on this.
--- Request Bean ---
request bean is initialized everytime a reuqest is made. It sometimes drove me nuts because JSF seems not to be every consistent in updating model values. Suppose you have a page showing parent-children a list of records from database, and you also allow user to change directly on the children. if I hbind the parent to a bean called #{Parent} and you bind the children to ADF table (value="#{Parent.children}" var="rowValue". If I set Parent as a request scope, the setChildren method is never called when I submit the form. Not sure if this is just for ADF or it is JSF problem. But if you change the bean to session scope, everything works fine.
I believe JSF doesn't update the bindings for all component attributes. It only update the input component value binding. Some one please verify this is true.
In many cases, i found request bean is very hard to work with if there are lots of updates. (I have lots of trouble with update the binding value for rendered attributes).
However, request bean is working fine for read only pages and simple binded forms. It definitely frees up memory quicker than session bean.
----- any comments or opinions are welcome!!! ------

I think it should be either Option 2 or Option 3.
Option 2 would be necessary if the bean data depends on some request parameters.
(Example: Getting customer bean for a particular customer id)
Otherwise Option 3 seems the reasonable approach.
But, I am also pondering on this issue. The above are just my initial thoughts.

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or
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"Alain" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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"Jong Lee" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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The apache plugin tells wls the client is using https and also pass on
the
client
cert if any.
"Alain" <[email protected]> wrote:
What is the best practice for eanbling SSL in an Apache/WL6.0SP1
configuration?
Is it:
Browser to Apache: HTTPS
Apache to WL: HTTP
or
Browser to Apache: HTTPS
Apache to WL: HTTPS
The first approach seems more efficient (assuming that Apache and WL
are
both in a secure datacenter), but in that case, how does WL know that
the
browser requested HTTPS to begin with?
Thanks
Alain

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