Oddjob 0.26.0

Oddjob is a free and open source Java job scheduler. Oddjob will provide you with no programming required scheduling with a business orientated approach that brings control back to the user.
Schedule a job on any server - from any server. Create dependencies and trigger alerts across the network. Monitor and control it all from your desktop.

Main features:
- Work with remote jobs as if they were on the desktop.
- See the state of your business processes at a glance.
- View job by job log events.
- Inspect and change the run-time properties of a job.
- Start and stop jobs manually.
- Web based monitoring and control.
- Oddjob Designer provides intuitive visual configuration.
- The underlying XML configuration is minimalistic and elegant, making it easy to edit for those who prefer the more technical approach.
- Link job properties with dynamic run-time configuration.
- Schedule for holidays intelligently by moving the existing schedules instead of not executing them at all.
- Schedule for different times on different days without needing to set up separate schedules.
- Configure retries for when a scheduled job fails.
- Re-run only whats necessary in a sequence of time consuming jobs.
- Trigger alerts when a scheduled job fails.
- Trigger alerts when a scheduled job fails after n number of retries.
- Schedule by time zone - move jobs from London to New York without re-writing schedules.
- Schedule for the last working day of the month.
- Schedule for the day after the last working day of the month.
- Schedule for any occurrence of a time - second Tuesday of the month, or second Tuesday or Wednesday whichever is first or last.
In addition to the supplied jobs, Oddjob provides lots of functionality by supporting embedded Ant tasks. Functionality provided this way includes:
- , file/directory copy/move/delete, email, ftp, sql, zip/unzip
- Trigger job sequences in response to events anywhere on the network.
- Execute jobs in parallel or sequentially or in any combination of the two.
- Execute job sequences based on the completion state of another job or job sequence.
- Cascade failure events upwards to trigger alerts.
- Cascade completion events upwards to trigger dependent jobs.
- Persist job states.
- Organise jobs into folders allowing easy navigation of enterprise wide business processes.
- Collect existing manual desktop processes together where they can be monitored and controlled remotely.
- Provide order and visibility to the mass of batch files and cron jobs that tie an enterprises critical business processes together.
- Jobs are just java.lang.Runnable objects.
- Configuration is via Java Bean properties.

System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Cleaner server-side Oddjob and improved user documentation for Sharing Oddjobs on the network.