Hi, Since a couple of days I try to find an easy way to handle "jobs" in Apache Felix Karaf and Camel. In standard, Camel proposes a camel-timer and camel-quartz components but they can only be used inside a camel route. By the way, camel context or camel routes are not "schedulable" like it is possible with Spring batch. So it is not possible to start a route at 9:00 and stop it at 11:00 and to check if the route succeed or fails inside a OSGI server. OF course, if camel is packaged in java standalone application or j2EE server, alternative exist.
This is why I come with the following idea who could be very interesting for Apache Felix Karaf in term of enterprise added value. *Job Scheduler for starting and stopping bundles* With the help of a quartz configuration file, the kernel of Apache Felix Karaf can check which bundles have to be scheduled (like jobs) and started/stopped. The bundle to be started could be a camel route, .... When the bundle stops or if the thread is still running at the end of the job, this information must be returned to the job scheduler in order to decide what to do (wait and send an alert to administrator to decide what to do). Another interesting feature could be to return fail / succeed to the job scheduler to keep trace of what happen during job execution. This information could be also used to link jobs / bundles together as this is a feature that you have with tool like IBM Tivoli Manager where you can chain jobs. Regards, Charles Moulliard Senior Enterprise Architect Apache Camel Committer ***************************** blog : http://cmoulliard.blogspot.com
