Java Scheduling: Quartz vs Others? (ie. Obsidian)

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Sebastian picture Sebastian · Oct 19, 2012 · Viewed 15.4k times · Source

I'm about to incorporate Quartz in one of our projects. While looking for a free UI to help us to monitor its execution state (jobs, etc.) we came across to this article: why-you-shouldnt-use-quartz

The author says Quartz is complex even for simple tasks (I tend to agree...) and mentions that Obsidian is a better option, which includes a nice UI out of the box. Indeed, that UI is somehow better than the best free alternative I cold find for Quartz (JWatch). Note: the author works for Obsidian...

  • Does anybody recommends Obsidian over Quartz? (or any other alternative)?
  • Do you know about any better free UI alternatives for Quartz?

Thanks,

Answer

Jorge Rocha picture Jorge Rocha · Jan 14, 2013

The program Quartz is the most widely used, however have a big problem because your Front End is very expensive.

But there are graphical applications for the quartz that can help in its analysis, such as JWatch https://github.com/royrusso/jwatch that has a graphical user interface on the web (as you have told before), Citrine https://github.com/massdosage/citrine-scheduler, MyScheduler https://github.com/saltnlight5/myschedule, Apache Click http://click.apache.org/ is a plugin for Eclipse that can help us systems installation, among other Front-End ...

Obsidian is quite good, with only one problem, you have to paid the second license, for a company is not the best solution, because the price, but for individuals is a great solution.

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