featherlite Utilities

The Utilities package provides the components to extend the core functionality of featherlite applications for special requirements outside the scope of pure planning and scheduling functionalities. The Utilities package provides components to manage recurrent jobs, log messages created from project-specific code and to transmit standard or encrypted, signed E-Mails.

Benefits

• Portability - 100% pure Java for platform-independence
• Ease of installation - server component plug-ins added to existing featherlite applications through configuration
• Ease of integration - ready-to-use user interfaces for existing featherlite applications
• Ease of development - services, queries and commands integrate seamlessly to enhance featherlite core functionality

Content

Recurrent Jobs

In featherlite applications workflows defining a structured set of activities, are used to schedule complex processes. In certain project-specific implementations simple recurrent jobs are required to perform some actions at periodic intervals. For this type of task, the use of featherlite workflow data structures would be a huge overhead. The featherlite Utilities package adds user interfaces, services, commands and queries to create, run and display recurrent jobs. Using these components you are able to extend your featherlite application with a recurrent job management.

Logging messages

featherlite applications use the familiar log4j logging framework to log the application trace. In general, users prefer to have some sort of messaging at a higher level than the administrative level of the log files.
The featherlite Utilities package adds user Interfaces, services, commands and queries to create, display and manage messages for users from your project-specific code. Using these components you are able to extend featherlite applications with a comfortable messaging component.

Sending E-mails

Some featherlite applications may require the implementation of additional information systems used to inform the users of events. The featherlite Utilities package adds user interfaces, services, commands and queries to transmit standard as well as signed and encrypted E-Mail messages. Using these components you are able to extend featherlite applications most of commonly used information systems.

Usage

All components in this package are aimed for direct use. Recurrent jobs can be easily implemented by adding service calls to jobs and by starting jobs by calling the relevant service shipped with the package. The same holds for the transmission of standard or signed and encrypted E-Mails.