Are there any other Java schedulers besides Quartz(FOSS) and Flux(Commercial)

Question

I am interested in finding out about other job scheduling packages besides Quartz and Flux. Given the plethora of web frameworks i find it peculiar that there is really only one scheduler. Are there others that perhaps are not as well-known or popular?

SpringBatch : Not really a scheduling solution but rather a batch job coordinator etc.

How does Spring Batch differ from Quartz? Is there a place for them both in a solution?

Spring Batch and Quartz have different goals. Spring Batch provides functionality for processing large volumes of data and Quartz provides functionality for scheduling tasks. So Quartz could complement Spring Batch, but are not excluding technologies. A common combination would be to use Quartz as a trigger for a Spring Batch job using a Cron expression and the Spring Core convenience SchedulerFactoryBean.

Answer 1

There are others, just not as well known necessarily:

http://java-source.net/open-source/job-schedulers

Also, as I mentioned above, TimerTask can be handy for simple tasks.

But I have to admit Quartz did a great job - it's one of the reasons they were ultimately "bought". jquery is a similar type of well-known solution when you might think there'd be more than there actually are.

Answer 2

Quartz is nice but just an API. Flux is pretty feature rich but more about workflow than hard-code scheduling. Another job scheduling alternative is JobServer with its open source SDK, soafaces. soafaces is a way to build modular server-side java Tasklets. It has lots of scheduling rules and job reporting/monitoring UI stuff also.