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Diff between External Task and URL Task

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Hi ALL,

Whats the exact difference between URL and External task ?

How can a URL task be used? under what circumstances?

Any thoughts?

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ISCBorisB

Hi ALL,

Whats the exact difference between URL and External task ?

How can a URL task be used? under what circumstances?

Any thoughts?

URL Task is a Java-based External Task that implements "CSURLExternalTask" Interface. It is not interactive.

Semantically the Usage is similar to a traditional external task. The difference is that it's a Servlet, invocation
is through Web Daemon by URL, Job/Task information is posted etc

Adam Stoller

Hi ALL,

Whats the exact difference between URL and External task ?

How can a URL task be used? under what circumstances?

Any thoughts?

Boris already provided the semantic differences - from the job spec perspective though there's really no difference - they're both external tasks - one that issues a command to be run directly on the server at the file system level, and one that issues a command to be run through a URL to a program that executes (presumably) on the server.

nipper

Hi ALL,

Whats the exact difference between URL and External task ?

How can a URL task be used? under what circumstances?

Any thoughts?

I usually charge about 50% more for a URL task. It sounds much more difficult. :-)

Adam Stoller

I usually charge about 50% more for a URL task. It sounds much more difficult. :-)

Yeah - but "External" is nearly three times as long ;-)

iw_store

URL Task is a Java-based External Task that implements "CSURLExternalTask" Interface. It is not interactive.

Semantically the Usage is similar to a traditional external task. The difference is that it's a Servlet, invocation
is through Web Daemon by URL, Job/Task information is posted etc

Thanks to all. I got it.

Does this mean URL Task = External Task + Implementation of External command using JAVA invocated via web-daemon ?

One more help.

And is it possible to execute a Servlet/JSP using a CGI Task ? Or CGI Task is meant to execute only CGI Script as the name suggests?

Adam Stoller

Thanks to all. I got it.

Does this mean URL Task = External Task + Implementation of External command using JAVA ?

One more help.

And is it possible to execute a Servlet/JSP using a CGI Task ? Or CGI Task is meant to execute only CGI Script as the name suggests?

CGIs expect a URI - whether that URI points to a script (living within IWHOME/httpd/iw-bin/) or a servlet / JSP (installed from IWHOME/local/config/lib/content_center/customer_src and referenced from /iw-cc/) is completely up to you.

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CGIs expect a URI - whether that URI points to a script (living within IWHOME/httpd/iw-bin/) or a servlet / JSP (installed from IWHOME/local/config/lib/content_center/customer_src and referenced from /iw-cc/) is completely up to you.

Thank you.