cron expression parsing into java date

Question

• my database having 10 18 16 ? * SUN,MON,WED,FRI * cron expression then how to convert into Java date.
• how to comparing with present day time.

Answer 1

Perhaps you can check cron-utils It has some utils to get next/previous execution given certain date, ex.: now. Works with JodaTime, but you could retrieve a JavaDate from there. The library is scheduler agnostic: you just provide a string with a cron expression. Is compatible with JDK6.