Welcome
Oddjob is the quickest way to automate manual tasks. Tasks include executing batch files or shell scripts, FTP commands, sending email, executing SQL and much more.
Oddjob is for Developers, Testers, Support Analysts, Administrators and anyone else that spends too much of their day on repetitive tasks. Oddjob saves you time so you can spend it on the fun stuff again.
Oddjob is free and open source.
Features
- Monitor and Control jobs anywhere on the network. More
- Visual configuration. More
- Very flexible scheduling. More
- Lots of functionality. More
- Triggered and conditional execution. More
- Extend without learning an API. More
Demos
- Getting Started With Oddjob
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Scheduling a simple Hello World job.
- Client/Server Oddjob
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Take the Hello World job, deploy it on a server and monitor it from the desktop.
News
16th September 2017
Oddjob-1.5.0 is now available. Highlights include
- A new TypeScript/JQuery web front end and supporting web service.
- A Task abstraction that allow parameterised job execution
- The build system now uses Ivy for dependency management.
17th November 2014
Oddjob-1.4.0 is now available. Highlights include
- New Icons and Job States to distinguish Jobs, Timers and Services.
- Support for recursive directory listing with Ant style wild card expansion.
- Repeat Job now iterates over any list and so has become a simpler Foreach Job.
- Numerous Bug Fixes and Small Enhancements
More information can be found on the blog.
Staying Informed
All new releases are posted under News on the Oddjob Sourceforge page.