JCronTab

Jcrontab is a scheduler written in Java. The project objective is to provide a fully functional schedules for Java projects. Jcrontab is designed to be extended and integrated with any project. Reads and stores the tasks to execute in a file, a database or an EJB and provides a basic web UI.

• Provides a system to run Classes/Threads/main/EJB/Methods/NativePrograms... at a given time.
• Provides a parser of crontab-like files that are fully compatible with UNIX-POSIX crontab files.
• Stores and reads crontab table from files, DD.BB. and is designed to be extended using generic interface DataSource to store/read crontab from any place.
• Sends an email with the result of the execution.
• Can be easily integrated with application servers - it has been tested in Tomcat, Resin, Jetty and Jboss. It has a load-on-startup servlet to make it easier.
• Can be used as a stand-alone application to "replace" cron.
• Has been designed and developed to get maximum performance and extensibility.