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Open Source Scheduler?

Does anyone have any suggestions for an open source scheduler maybe written or Java that will allow for scheduling batch jobs and also has the capability to watch for events to kick off jobs?

The built in scheduler will not suffice.

Thanks,

NG,

for_yan

Check these:
http://java-source.net/open-source/job-schedulers

for_yan

check also this - they are talking about Quartz and some other

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2750226/what-is-a-good-open-source-job-scheduler-in-java

for_yan

and this is close but maybe something additional:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1465607/java-scheduler

for_yan

Actually there were many such questions on stackoverflow, but Quartz seems to dominate:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1740147/alternatives-to-quartz-for-job-scheduling

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4577385/can-anyone-recommend-an-open-source-c-or-java-based-scheduler-for-embedding-as-t

nike_golf

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All those seem to be Inly able to schedule java applications. Correct me if I'm wrong...

I need to be able to schedule .exe and .bat jobs do any if those offer that?

nike_golf

ASKER

Something like zcron looks promising but since I was hoping to run this on my desktop at work it's a bust...

for_yan

But you can wrap .exe and .bat in Java Runtime.getUntiame().exec(...)

Quartz also has NativeJob facility to run native job, like .exe

Maybe z-cron is more suitable if you are not focused so much on java

nike_golf

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Maybe I'm overlooking Quartz...

Do you have an example of how I would execute a .bat in Quartz?

NG,

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for_yan

But if most of your jobs will not be based on java - I'd rather suggest to use non-java
scheduler.

nike_golf

ASKER

Since this is a Windows 7 machine I don't really see a lot of options.

Quartz and Quarts.net look promising as well as Zcron.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

for_yan

You are always welcome.