Oddjob Reference

• Jobs
  • ant - Run a series of Ant tasks.
  • client - Connect to an Oddjob server.
  • copy - A Copy job.
  • delete - Delete a file or directory, or files and directories.
  • depends - A job which depends on another job.
  • designer - Run a GUI designer for Oddjob.
  • echo - Echo text to the console.
  • exec - Execute an external program.
  • exists - Test if a file exists.
  • explorer - Runs Oddjob Explorer.
  • folder - Holds a colection of child job but does not execute them.
  • foreach - A job which executes its child jobs for each of the provided values.
  • hsqldb - Start an instance of the HSQL Database engine.
  • if - This job implements an if/then/else logic.
  • mkdir - Make a directory, including any necessary but nonexistent parent directories.
  • oddjob - The starting point for a hierarchy of jobs.
  • parallel - A job which contains many child jobs and executes them all in parallel each on a separate thread.
  • rename - Rename a file or directory.
  • repeat - This job will repeatadly run it's child job.
  • reset - A job which resets another job.
  • rmireg - A job which creates an RMI registry.
  • run - A job which runs another job.
  • schedule - Add schedules to a given scheduler.
  • scheduler - Run the scheduler.
  • script - Execute a script.
  • sequence - Provide a sequence number which is incremented each time the job is executed.
  • sequential - Executes children in a sequence.
  • server - A job which allows client a local job hierarchy to be monitored and managed remotely via JMX.
  • set - A job which sets properties in other jobs when it executes.
  • sql - Runs a sql query.
  • stop - A job which stops another job.
  • trigger - Used to fire state dependent events such as a schedule.
  • unschedule - Remove a schedule from a scheduler.
  • variables - This job provides a 'variables' like declaration within Oddjob.
  • wait - This Job will either wait a given number of milliseconds or will wait for a property or job to become available.
• Types
  • buffer - A buffer can be used to store output for different jobs to use.
  • connection - Definition for a Database connection.
  • date - Allows a date to be specified in different formats.
  • environment - Capture an environment variable or all environment variables.
  • file - Specify a file.
  • filePersister - Persist and load jobs from and to a file.
  • files - Specify files using a wildcard pattern.
  • format - A type which can either format a number or a date into the given text format.
  • list - A list can list any other type including another list.
  • map - A type which creates a mapping from the given name to the given value.
  • properties - A type which reads a properties file and creates a map like type from the contents.
  • schedule - A schedule type defines an Oddjob Schedule as used in the schedule and retry elements of ojschedule and repeat.
  • sqlPersister - Persists job state to a database.
  • system - A type which creates a map like type from the system properties.
  • value - A simple value, the most common type.