| <article link="jobs-api.html"> |
| <title>On the Job: The Eclipse Jobs API</title> |
| <date>September 20, 2004</date> |
| |
| <category>Platform</category> |
| <category>Jobs</category> |
| <category>Resources</category> |
| |
| <author> |
| <name>Michael Valenta</name> |
| <company>IBM</company> |
| </author> |
| <description> |
| This article looks at the new Jobs API available as part of |
| Eclipse 3.0. It describes the main portions of the Jobs API and |
| the use of scheduling rules. It also describes some changes to |
| Eclipse resource management including how the Resources plug-in |
| integrates with the new API. Finally, it describes some new UI |
| functionality that has been added to provide feedback to users |
| about jobs that are run in the background. |
| </description> |
| </article> |