Job Scheduling

The Axelor Open Platform integrates feature rich quartz scheduler library for job scheduling.

Jobs are executed by a separate process running under an admin session. The services executed can be transactional. All database operations will be executed using the admin access.

Configuration

The scheduler is disabled by default. It can be enabled with following configuration.

# Quartz Scheduler
# ~~~~~
# quartz job scheduler

# Specify whether to enable quartz scheduler
quartz.enable = false

# total number of threads in quartz thread pool
# the number of jobs that can run simultaneously
quartz.threadCount = 5

Jobs

Scheduled jobs can be configured from Administration → Jobs → Schedules menu. The schedule configuration data requires:

  • name - name of the job

  • job - the job class implementing org.quartz.Job interface

  • cron - the cron string to schedule the job

  • active - whether the job is enabled

Additionally, job configuration can have parameter values (list of key → value pairs).

Here is an example job implementation:

package com.axelor.contact.jobs;

import org.quartz.Job;
import org.quartz.JobDataMap;
import org.quartz.JobDetail;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionContext;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionException;

public class HelloJob implements Job {

  @Override
  public void execute(JobExecutionContext context) throws JobExecutionException {
    JobDetail detail = context.getJobDetail();
    JobDataMap data = context.getJobDetail().getJobDataMap();

    String name = detail.getKey().getName();
    String desc = detail.getDescription();

    System.err.println("Job fired: " + name + " (" + desc + ")");
    if (data != null && data.size() > 0) {
      for (String key : data.keySet()) {
        System.err.println("    " + key + " = " + data.getString(key));
      }
    }
  }
}