If you need to schedule jobs in Java, it is fairly common in the industry to use Quartz directly or via Spring integration. Quartz’ home page at the time of writing claims that using quartz is a simple 3-step process: Download, add to app, execute jobs when you need to. For any of you that … Read more
One of the most important features of Obsidian is the ability to be notified of application events and also quickly locate and correct any issues that arise. While products like Quartz and cron4j give us the basic scheduling, we have to develop our own solutions for monitoring and notification of events. Unfortunately, in many corporate … Read more
We’ve added more to Obsidian Scheduler. Version 1.2 is now available here. Features added in this release include Description annotation on job class enables inline help in admin web app Scheduled one-time runs New Job Status supporting any unscheduled events (ad hoc & chaning) Bundled Winstone support for quick start Option to wait indefinitely for … Read more
Obsidian Scheduler provides enterprise scheduling features while natively supporting pooling and clustering, or in other words, load balancing and fault tolerance. But Obsidian does so in a way that is painless and non-invasive. In fact, you don’t have to do anything. Load balancing and fault tolerance are built into each instance of Obsidian Scheduler whether … Read more
When we started working on our Obsidian Scheduler, one of the primary motivations was to give our clients full control over the configuration of their server runtime and total control over job configuration, including schedule, state, parameterization, etc. More than just full control, we wanted the configuration of said items to take effect immediately across … Read more
We’ve been working hard to make Obsidian Scheduler even better. Version 1.1 is now available. Features added in this release include Perfectly distributed load balancing across runnings hosts within seconds of pool membership changes Header icons indicating the number of active hosts Ability to disable targeted scheduler instances without shutting them down Ad hoc job … Read more
We are proud to announce version 1.0 of Obsidian Scheduler, which features built-in failover, load distribution and scripting support, is out today. We are proud to direct you to our demo and invite you to download a fully-functional trial.
As software professionals, we need our job schedulers to be reliable, easy to use and transparent. When it comes to job schedulers, transparent means letting us know what is going on. We want to have available to us information such as when was the job scheduled to run, when did it start, when did it … Read more
Job scheduling is a common need in business software environments. The first thing that likely comes to mind is cron. While cron is a very useful tool, it fails to provide for even basic business needs including logging, history and monitoring and availability (beyond the availability of the host it runs on). Open source tools … Read more
We are proud to announce our new Java scheduler!