Alternatives to Quartz for job scheduling

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cclark picture cclark · Nov 16, 2009 · Viewed 40.1k times · Source

Has anyone found any alternative open-source solutions to Quartz which they are happy with?

I know Cronacle is a well respected (and pricey) closed source solution for job scheduling but I'd like to make sure we exhaust the open-source alternatives before going down that route.

Answer

jitter picture jitter · Nov 16, 2009

Did you already check all of those listed in Open Source Job Schedulers in Java:

  1. jcrontab
  2. Quartz
  3. Fulcrum Scheduler
  4. Essiembre J2EE Scheduler
  5. Gos4j
  6. Oddjob
  7. Job Scheduler
  8. JDRing
  9. jBatchEngine
  10. MyBatchFramework
  11. Super
  12. cron4j

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