‘Spring Batch is not a scheduling framework… It is intended to work in conjunction with a scheduler, not replace a scheduler’ – That’s what the Spring Batch manual says. But as luck would have it, Oddjob is a scheduler, and it can work in conjunction with Spring Batch very very easily.
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Oddjob 1.1 Released
Feed Reading with Oddjob and Rome
Here’s a nice little demo of the kind of task automation Oddjob is great at – Sending me an email when it’s going to rain!
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Fun Getting Started with Spring Batch
I’ve been working through the Spring Batch Getting Started page using the SpringSource Toool Suite (STS). Here’s a brief summary of some of the ‘fun’ I had ‘Getting Started’.
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Oddjob in Eclipse Setup
A failed hard drive has meant a new install of Eclipse. It’s reminded me that although the Eclipse project and classpath files and other settings are on GitHub a few tweaks to Eclipse are still necessary to work with Oddjob.
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EGit Connection Timed Out
Yesterday when I tried syncing some Oddjob changes to GitHub I kept getting a connection timed out exception:
git@github.com:robjg/oddjob.git: Session.connect: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
I tried upping the timeout in Preferences -> Team -> Git -> Remote Connection timeout but to no avail.
So I dropped support@github.com a mail and had an amazingly prompt and helpful reply. If you’ve found this page because you have a similar problem here’s some things to try.
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