This section contains information about the Job Scheduling component.

Sometimes activities should be performed on a regular basis. When the interval between Job excecutions are longer than minutes or hours and when job descriptions should be persistent then the Job Scheduler is the right component to use. For smaller intervalls the TimerQueue should be used instead.

The Job Scheduler executes Actions as defined in the Microflow component.

Core funtionality:

JobScheduler: Main scheduler class

JobMonitor: Specialised thread that monitors a JobProcessor

JobProcessor: Thread that execute a Job

Job: subclass of Action as defined in Microflow Component

JobContext: The context in which a job is exceuted, i.e Job description.

JobInvocation: The current invocation of the Job. subclass of ActionInvocation

Persistent job description are to be added later.