Older News
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.
11th May 2013
Oddjob-1.3.0 is now available.
- An Improved
foreachJob that supports a parallel run window and the ability to design each job in theforeachconfiguration. - Timer and Retry now allow the nextDue property to be set while the timer is running.
- A Grep Job has been added that can search files or any other input for text or a regular expression.
- Numerous Bug Fixes and Small Enhancements
More information can be found on the blog.
12th September 2012
Oddjob-1.2.0 is now available. This release includes:
- Improved Job Designer.
- Improved Job Properties.
- New JMX Support.
- Numerous Bug Fixes and Small Enhancements
More information can be found on the blog.
27th January 2012
Oddjob-1.1.0 is now available. This release includes:
- The old Struts Web Front End has been replaced with a new JSF one.
- The ability to force a Failed Job to Complete has been added.
25th October 2011
Oddjob-1.0.0 is now available. This release includes:
- Improved scheduling, more intuitive configuration and lots more examples.
- Oddjob Explorer now has the ability to open new windows, navigation is easier and more accelerator keys have been added.
- A read only role for the JMX client has been introduced and a JMX server can now use the Platform MBean.
- Many bugs have been fixed, extra tests have been added, and job documentation improved.
3rd May 2011
Oddjob-0.30.0 is now available. This release includes:
- Adoption of the international date standard ISO 8601 for all configuration.
- An input handler for prompting for user input.
- Improved Reference Guide including many more examples.
28th August 2010
Oddjob-0.29.0 is now available. This release includes:
- Simple Archiving by taking a snapshot of a job's silhouette.
- Support for distributing work across multiple servers by using a job that grabs for work.
- Much improved SQL support, including running stored procedures and parameterised queries.
28th September 2009
Oddjob-0.28.0 is now available. This release includes:
- Server Security with JMX Simple Security.
- Network failure detection in the JMX client.
- A cleaner core Oddjob achieved with more Oddballs.
- A Simple services framework for auto wiring beans.
31st July 2009
Oddjob-0.27.0 is now available. This release includes:
- A new module system for Oddjob called Oddballs. Includes an Oddball that lets Oddjob play with Spring.
17th May 2009
Oddjob-0.26.0 is now available. This release includes:
- Cleaner server side Oddjob and improved user documentation for Sharing Oddjobs on the network.
8th April 2009
Oddjob-0.25.0 is now available. This release includes:
- Simpler and more intuitive scheduling provided by three components: Timer, Retry and Trigger. These can be combined to meet most complicated scheduling requirements.
- New state jobs for extra control over execution flow.
24th February 2009
Oddjob-0.24.0 is now available. This release includes:
- New Java Bean based Configuration Framework that supports Drag and Drop, Job by Job, between Client and Server.
12th March 2006
Oddjob-0.22.0 is now available. This release includes:
- New Improved web front end.
- Improved persistence including database persistence.
- 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, particularly the reference guide has been improved.