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Robert Kanter commented on OOZIE-1306: -------------------------------------- It looks like Quartz Scheduler has (among other things), some utilities for parsing and calculating cron expressions, and is Apache Licensed. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, it may make sense to use for handling some of the cron stuff: http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/api/2.1.7/org/quartz/CronExpression.html > add flexibility to oozie coordinator job scheduling > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: OOZIE-1306 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-1306 > Project: Oozie > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Bowen Zhang > > Right now, to have a job that runs everyday from 9-5pm, we need to schedule 8 > identical daily coordinator job, each of which starts at one particular hour; > To have a job that runs from Monday through Friday, we need 5 identical > weekly jobs with different start time. And there is no way right now to > schedule a job to runevery first day of the month. This ticket aims to solve > this inconvenience. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira