EJB JOB SCHEDULER (Kronos from ICS)

[Shekar Gunaseharan]

Paramus, NJ - January 18, 2002 - Indus Consultancy Services (ICS)
started the year off by announcing the availability of Kronos Enterprise
Scheduler 3.10, a full-featured job scheduling system written for the
Enterprise Java (J2EE) environment. This release adds a new Result File
Tracking feature, several bug fixes, and support for the latest releases
of jBoss and Tomcat.

Result File Tracking is a powerful new feature that enables users to
view files generated by a job execution from their workstations. For
example, the execution of a job may in part result in the generation of
one or more PDF files, or perhaps a Word document or Excel spreadsheet.
Through the Kronos Enterprise Scheduler API, the job can notify the
scheduler server components of the files it generated. Those files are
then tracked in the database according to the execution ID. Using the
Job Monitor, an end-user can view the history of job executions, and see
a list of the files generated by each subsequent execution. Selecting a
file, the Job Monitor can, in most cases, bring up the native
application for viewing that file; for example, Adobe Acrobat to view
the PDF file.

Kronos Enterprise Scheduler 3.10 also adds support for the latest
release of the jBoss Application Server (version 2.4.4) using either
Tomcat 3.2.3 or Tomcat 4.0.1 for the Web Server.

Find out why customers around the globe are selecting Kronos Enterprise
Scheduler to handle their scheduling needs. Whether you are looking for
an end-user tool to manage scheduling of system or application jobs
throughout your enterprise, or whether you are looking for a powerful
API to bring scheduling functionality to your own applications, Kronos
Enterprise Scheduler continues to add innovative features that keep it
ahead of the competition. Visit our product page today at
http://www.indcon.com to request a FREE 30-day evaluation, and see for
yourself why Kronos Enterprise Scheduler remains the most comprehensive
solution on the market today.

[James McGovern a.k.a. Doctor Java]

I would hope that BEA will step up and develop a replacement for their
deprecated APIs. It is unfair to ask their customers to buy something they
got previously for free. I also understand that the future EJB spec will
contain scheduling features.