Welcome to jBatchEngine

• jBatchEngine is a batch job spooler written in Java
• In contrast to time driven schedulers like Cron, jBatchEngine is event driven
• It can be used to start any batch programs
• jBatchEngine can be installed as a Windows Service or a Unix Daemon
• Soon there will be an Eclipse plugin and a standalone RCP Client for job monitoring
• Currently a DatabaseAdapter provides job spooling
  But you can provide your own Adapter for Jobmanagement. Simply implement the Adapter Interface and configure it in the Spring configuration.
• A MessagingAdapter support is planned

• Lifecycle of a Job in jBatchEngine in a State Diagram:

• Javadoc is available here
• jBatchEngine is written in Java 5 and makes use of the following open source frameworks and libraries:
  Java Service Wrapper, Spring Framework, iBATIS, Log4j and
  several components from Jakarta Commons

• Download the latest release from SourceForge
• Also download the example batch from SourceForge
• Monitor as Eclipse Plugin and Eclipse Rich Client comming soon

• Unzip jbatchengine_x.x.x.zip in an empty folder and follow the instructions in install.txt
• There is an example Batch that can be used for tests:
  Unzip jbatchengine_x.x.x.zip in an empty folder and configure testbatch.jcmd

• Please us the SourceForge Project page

• jBatchEngine is released under GNU General Public License
• © 2006 - Simon Martinelli, Gampelen, Switzerland