Welcome

Oddjob is a free open source Java job scheduler. Oddjob provides 'no programming required' scheduling with a business orientated approach that brings control back to the user.

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

Benefits

Automate tasks quickly.
Reduce development time.
Cut support overhead.
Make technology more transparent.

News

12th March 2006
Oddjob-0.22.0 is now available. This release includes:

New Improved web front end.
Improved persistance including database persistance.
New Simple SQL query job.
Extended support for java.lang.Runnable jobs.
Improved file/directory jobs.
Improved Developer Guide.
Lots More Examples.

7th December 2005
Oddjob-0.21.0 is now available. This release includes:

Right-click scheduling and unscheduling of any job on any server on any scheduler on any server.
Monitor a process's console output on any server.
Job scripting using groovy or other languages.
Cut and Paste support added to Oddjob Designer.
New User Guide.

5th October 2005
Oddjob-0.20.0 is now available. This release includes:

Quartz is now used for scheduling.
A schedule can now be triggered based on the completion state of another job.
Job properties can now be set directly from Oddjob Explorer.
System properties, environment variables and property files can now be used in Oddjob.
Documentation, paticularly the reference guide has been improved.

Staying Informed

All new releases are published on Freshmeat under Oddjob.