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The following code snippet shows you how to download content i.e PDF and Excel files from Server. Since its a JSP page the output stream has been cleared so binary content will not be corrupted. Code can be converted to a servlet if required To change to other content formats for download just change setContentType e.g response.setContentType("image/png");

Date Formating Utility consists of various functions from parsing date to date validation.

Example Demonstrates how to ensure only one instance of the same job is running at a time using Quartz version 1.6. This approach uses quartz getCurrentlyExecutingJobs method, Another approach that can be used is making your job implement the StateFulJob Interface avaliable in Quartz 2.

Having a util class is pretty handy when needing common system wide functions to call in order to manipulate strings perform validations. The following Class is just work in progress of some of the more common functions you would use when starting out your project. Please fill free to add comments i.e other useful functions to make it a more comprehensive utility class.