I have a scheduled action that is run via cron. I've implemented it in Java and configured it as indicated on the wiki. This works perfectly.
Is there a way, besides the automatic scheduling by cron, to programatically execute the job once? I mean: to execute it once in addition to the executions scheduled by cron.
Of course, I can run the action on a specific node, but I'd like to have the whole query executed and have all the resulting actions run. Is there a way to do this?
Looking closer at the code (CronScheduledQueryBasedTemplateActionDefinition.java), it seems that one way to go would be to subclass CronScheduledQueryBasedTemplateActionDefinition and override getTrigger() to not create a CronTrigger but a SimpleTrigger. I would then have two "scheduled actions" in my configuration XML files: one for the cron job and another one for the SimpleTrigger. However, I am not sure how exactly this works: just setting/replaceing the trigger is probably not enough and I need to re-register the trigger with the scheduler. But how?
If the above is not an option, how can my service create a new "worker thread" with its own transaction to programatically select the nodes and work through them? Is there an example available? Maybe an already existing Alfresco Service I could take a look at?
I believe you should add extension bootstrap beans for amp initialisation. See the RM amp for an example and the bootstrap context for where bootstrap extensions are found.
