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Dropwizard Sundial Scheduler Tutorial Introduction         The functionality of scheduling jobs is frequently used in many applications today. Sundial is a quartz fork.  dropwizard-sundial library makes it very easy to configure and integrate a job scheduler into a Dropwizard application. This blog post will give you a comprehensive overview of this functionality.         Sundial is a Lightweight Job Scheduling Framework for Java. Sundial makes adding scheduled jobs to your Java application very simple. All we have to do is define jobs, define triggers, and start the Sundial scheduler. For more details about it please refer to: Sundial GitHub page .         Dropwizard is one of the most popular and most used frameworks for building microservices. I am assuming that you have a Basic Knowledge of Dropwizard and have a Basic Dropwizard Application running in your machine. If not, please check my blog post on Basic Dropwizard Application by going to the link:  Dropwizard T

Send Email in Java Introduction         Sending an email is one of the most important and most frequently used functionalities in a technology organization. A software developer should know how this is done. This post will give you a comprehensive overview of sending emails using Java mail libraries. This post will give you an overview of the following: Send a plain text email in HTML format. Create an attachment and send an email. Use an existing file as an attachment and send an email.  As RESTful web services are commonly used today, I will be using Dropwizard for building out the email functionality as RESTful APIs. Hence here are what I will be using in this post: Java mail libraries: To connect to email service provider, compose and send emails Gmail: Email service provider Dropwizard: For developing Email functionalities as RESTful web services         Dropwizard is one of the most popular and most used frameworks for building microservices. I am assuming