Job Scheduling

[Marc Lijour]

If you use Java you coud look at the Quartz scheduler, you mention it. 
I used it and I have no complaints. It looks solid and you can use cron 
expressions ;-)

On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:27, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Is there anyone using more sophisticated job schedulers than cron?
>
> http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-07-1998/swol-07-scheduling.html
>
> The above article points out the problems with this:
>
> "In short, cron is pretty much a fancy alarm clock, waking up at
> preset times to run a job. Detection of job failure is simplistic, and
> it can't rerun a failed job at a later date. If you're lucky, cron
> will send you e-mail that a job has failed, but more often than not,
> that e-mail goes to the superuser, not your personal mailbox. There is
> no way to tell cron to restart a failed job, or to automatically run a
> recovery job if some other job has failed."
>
> This article points out Unison Maestro, COSbatch, Autosys, CA
> Unicenter as commercial choices that have these sorts of additional
> capabilities.  Others include Vexus Avatar, Dollar Enterprise, BMC
> Control-M, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, ...
>
> There are several OSS systems that might be of some relevance:
>
> http://jobscheduler.sourceforge.net/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/quartz (tasks must be in Java...)
>
> Anyone tried any of these?
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