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Super Scheduler EE: task scheduler for all application job scheduling

Super Scheduler EE (Enterprise Edition) is a full-featured task scheduler supporting J2EE and Java EE job scheduling. When it is scheduled for J2EE and Java EE jobs, it runs as a client of your J2EE and Java EE application server. It runs in its own JVM and never interferes the state of your J2EE, Java EE server. Super Scheduler EE is also an SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) tool by supporting Webservice job scheduling.

Super Scheduler EE is the twin software of Super Watchdog EE, which is event-action task scheduler.

Super Scheduler EE is entirely written in Java. It is platform neutral and J2EE, Java EE vendor neutral. 
SuperScheduler (one word name) is the program name of Super Scheduler.

Main features

• It fully supports distributed computing environment. You can schedule and run tasks on any machine in the network at any time, either on application server machines or on client machines. Many instances of Super Scheduler EE can run at the same time while a task will run once and only once at the scheduled time. All instances of Super Scheduler EE share up-to-date information automatically and promptly (default is two seconds). 
• It fails-over. If any instance of Super Scheduler EE is down or busy, others will pick up the tasks.
• It fully supports J2EE clustering environment. The scheduled J2EE tasks can be on any J2EE application server in the network. It uses J2EE server's load balancing and fail-over facilities to arrange J2EE tasks.
• It is scalable. if one instance of Super Scheduler EE is too busy, you can always add another machine to run another instance of Super Scheduler EE. All instances of Super Scheduler EE load-balance themselves in a natural way.
• It provides Doer and Talker modes, allowing tasks be fully managed and monitored anywhere in the world.
• It supports many types jobs: Email, EJB, JMS Queue, JMS Topic, JMX, Servlet/JSP, Shutdown Super and Web service. It also supports composite jobs and retry jobs as well.
• It detects missed tasks and sends alarm email messages.
• It has a built-in GUI tool for scheduling and monitoring tasks. Monitoring windows refresh themselves automatically and promptly. It allows you to suspend tasks, reactive tasks and run tasks immediately.
• It allows you to visually set EJB tasks using EasyEJB.
• It allows you to visually set JMS tasks using EasyJMS.
• It allows you to visually set JMX (MBean) tasks using EasyJMX.
• It allows you to visually set Web Service tasks using EasyWebservice.
• It logs major task related events. It provides history facilities.
• It supports a running period for all tasks.
• A tasks runs on a desired machine if specified.
• All tasks can be programmatically controlled by simple Java API or any other program (like C/C++). 
• It provides very flexible schedule terms: minutely, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, on specific week days and at specified times.
• It provides very comprehensive holiday/weekend policies and facilities providing choices of Next business day, Previous business day and Skip. Any change to holidays will take effect automatically and promptly. 
• It works well if your network crosses through many time zones.
• It provides a lightweight daemon for non graphic environment.
• It provides a Role Based Entitlement management.

Super Scheduler EE is a better alternative for other scheduler, such as AutoSys for workload automation.
Super Scheduler EE supports the following J2EE, Java EE, application servers:

• JBoss: open source 4.00
• JOnAS: open source 4.3
• WebLogic 8 - 9 - 10
• WebSphere 5 - 6 - 6.1
• Universal

It is optimized as WebLogic scheduler and Websphere scheduler.

Super supports all the standard SQL 92 entry level databases, it has been tested on the following databases:

• DB2 8.1
• Derby (Open source Java database from Apache)
• Hypersonic SQL (hsqldb)
• Oracle 8.1
• Sybase enterprise server 12.5

Super is platform neutral. it has been tested on the following platforms:

• IBM hardware System I RedHat 4.
• IBM hardware pSeries  AIX 3 5.
• IBM hardware pSeries  RedHat 4.
• IBM hardware xSeries  RedHat 4.
• IBM hardware xSeries  Windows 2003.
• IBM hardware zSeries (mainframe S390)   RedHat 4.
• Linux: RedHat 7.3, server 3.
• Linux: SUSE 8 (kernel  2.4.19-4GB) (IBM xSeries).
• Solaris 7, 8 and 9 (Sparc).
• Windows 2000, XP.

See  Overview  and Tour for more information.


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Super Scheduler EE is part of Super EE. Please download Super EE from here.

The differences between SuperScheduler EE and open source SuperScheduler

SuperScheduler EE comes with Enterprise features

• With technical support for Enterprise licensees.
• With more types of Jobs: EJB, email2, JMS, JMX, SCP, SSH, URL, Webservice and more.
• With Graceful-shutdown-Super job, so Super will be always "fresh".
• With Export and Import facilities.
• With History (log) for recording job change event for auditing.