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Super Watchdog EE: Event-action task scheduler for all application job scheduling

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

Super Watchdog EE is the twin software of Super Scheduler EE, which is timer-action system.

Super Watchdog EE is entirely written in Java. It is platform neutral and J2EE, Java EE, vendor neutral.

In this document, the term trigger and event are interchangeable. The same is true for action and chore.

Main Features

• It fully supports distributed computing environment. You can use Super Watchdog EE on any machine in the network at any time, either on J2EE, Java EE, server machines or on client machines. Many instances of Super Watchdog EE can run at the same time while a chore will be triggered once and only once at the trigger time. All instances of Super Watchdog EE share up-to-date information automatically and promptly (default is two seconds). 
• It fails-over. If any instance of Super Watchdog is down or busy, others will pick up the slack.
• It fully supports J2EE, Java EE, clustering environment. The scheduled J2EE, Java EE, application can be on any server in the network. It uses J2EE, Java EE, server's load balancing and fail-over facilities to arrange J2EE, Java EE, chores.
• It is scalable: if one instance of Super Watchdog EE is too busy, you can always add another machine to run another instance of Super Watchdog EE. All instances of Super Watchdog EE load-balance themselves in a natural way.
• It supports many types jobs: Email, EJB, Servlet/JSP, Shutdown Super and Web service (as Java or Operating System jobs). It also support composite jobs and retry jobs as well.
• It supports many types of triggers: File timestamp, JMS Queue, JMS Topic, MBean notification and User defined triggers.
• It has a built-in GUI tool for managing and monitoring chores. Monitoring windows refresh themselves automatically and promptly. It allows you to suspend chores, reactive chores and run chores immediately.
• It allows you to visually set EJB chores using EasyEJB.
• It allows you to visually set JMS chores using EasyJMS.
• It allows you to visually set MBean (JMX) chores using EasyJMX.
• It allows you to visually set Web Service chores using EasyWebservice.
• It logs major chore related events. It provides history facilities.
• It supports a running period for all chores.
• A chore runs on a desired machine if specified.
• All chores can be programmatically controlled by simple Java API or any other program (like C/C++). 
• It works well if your network crosses through many time zones.
• It provides a lightweight daemon for non graphic environment.

Super Watchdog EE supports the following J2EE, Java EE, application servers:

• JBoss: open source 4.00
• JOnAS: open source 4.3
• WebLogic 8.1 - 9 - 10
• WebSphere 5.02 - 6.0 - 6.1
• Universal 

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.

SuperWatchdog (one word name) is the program name of Super Watchdog.

Download

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

The differences between SuperWatchdog EE and open source SuperWatchdog

SuperWatchdog 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 Export and Import facilities.
• With History (log) for recording job change event for auditing.
• With more types of trigger: JMS and JMX and more.