Category Archives: Java

Quartz Cron Expression That Will Never Run

I had a requirement for writing a cron job in Java using Quartz api. I finished it, but I had to wait before I start running it at the scheduled interval as there were some other dependencies that were yet to be resolved. So I needed a cron job expression that wouldn’t run at all. So what I did was add the below cron expression in the property file:

javax.el.ELException in Tomcat 7 For JSP-based Web Application

I don’t like to write any technical stuff here. I just try to share what I find amusing online or some blogging or webmaster stuffs in general. But I will talk a bit on it today as it is related to Java hosting. It’s basically a Java Exception that might break your JSP-based web application if you have recently upgraded to Tomcat 7 from Tomcat 6 or more prior version. Have you got something like this in your Tomcat log file when you are trying to open a JSP page: