We have Java EE servers that provide us load balanced, clustered web farms. I want to use the same EE technology, built on Java EE servers, but for running batch jobs.
I dont want to reinvent the wheel and dont imagine that I am the first to think of this.
This would be similar to WebShere's Feature Pack for Modern Batch, but I am looking for an Open Source solution, preferably supporting or capable of supporting JBOSS 7 and using a liberal license (Apache / MIT etc).
The ideal solution allows for:
- is clustered - load balancing and monitoring jobs across as many machines within a cluster
- runs everything within the single EE server jvm
- has jobs as loadable modules pulled from a central repository, does not need to deploy new jobs to the server
- support transactional (chunked) or compute intensive (single step) applications
- provides an isolated container to run any number of job
- allows for jobs to stopped, paused and restarted
- load balances by running chunks across as many machines are the job is configured for
- prioritizes jobs such that high priority jobs run first
- allows jobs to be scheduled or launched on demand
- has a simple web interface that allows monitoring of jobs
- supports JMX
- rich API
:D While we are at it...
- has great documentation
- optional commercial support is available but not necessarily from a 'for-profit' company that runs the project development
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