One of the best things about Obsidian Scheduler is how quick and easy it is to get it running jobs. With other tools, you might have to set aside an afternoon to get it going, but with Obsidian, trust me, it won’t take long at all. To show you how easy it really is, I’m … Read more
In my last post, I delivered on a reusable, file archival schedulable job. I promised to next look at doing something similar for file cleanup. File cleanup needs are driven by similar, if not identical, factors as those for file archival. Reiterating those, they are – limits of physical space, business or compliance requirements for … Read more
We’ve all worked on projects that required us to do very basic tasks at periodic intervals. Perhaps we chose a basic ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor. If we’re already using Spring, maybe we tried their TaskExecutor/TaskScheduler support. But once we encounter any number of situations such as an increased quantity of tasks, new interdependencies between tasks, unexpected problems in … Read more
When we began development on Obsidian Scheduler, one of its key objectives was transparency. Quoting my own post, 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 complete, which host ran … Read more
In this post I’m going to cover how to do job chaining in Quartz versus Obsidian Scheduler. Both are Java job schedulers, but they have different approaches so I thought I’d highlight them here and give some guidance to users using both options. It’s very common when using a job scheduler to need to chain … Read more
Getting your program code to the point that it satisfies the functional requirements provided is a milestone for developers, one that hopefully brings satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment. If that code must be executed on a schedule perhaps for multiple uses with custom schedules and configurable parameters, this can mean a whole new set … Read more
Job scheduling is used on many software projects to enable both internal jobs and third-party integration. Clustering can provide a huge boost to reliability by providing fail-over and load-sharing. I believe that clustering should be implemented for reliability on just about all software projects, so I’ve decided to outline how to go about doing that … Read more
At Carfey Software, we love our flagship product, Obsidian Scheduler. We believe that Obsidian is the best choice for most scheduling needs. Why? Because Obsidian is carefully designed to meet both simple and complex requirements. We think it stacks up well whether you are struggling with an existing scheduler or investigating if you should once … 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
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