About the Scheduler Binding Component

The Scheduler Binding Component provides scheduling capabilities for initiating JBI services. The binding component is powered by OpenSymphony Quartz, and allows you to schedule triggers to launch (consume) other JBI components, such as the File Binding Component. You can set these actions or processes to occur at specific times or break up activities to fit any schedule.

The Scheduler Binding Component lets you choose from three types of triggers:

• Simple: The Simple trigger is a time-interval trigger, which means it can be programmed to trigger something every so-many units of time. For example, you can schedule an activity to start, and then repeat every hour, until the scheduled end.

• Cron: The Cron trigger is a time specific trigger. Using the Cron trigger, you can schedule an action using seconds, minutes, hours, days, day-of-week, months, and years. For example, you can schedule an action to occur on the third Monday of each month at 12:00 AM.

• Hybrid: The Hybrid trigger is a Cron trigger that starts a Simple trigger. This allows you to schedule an action to occur repeatedly within a specific time frame. For example, you can schedule a task to occur 30 times, every hour, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

The Scheduler Wizard allows you to easily configure triggers for your project in just a few steps.