Chapter 4: The Pentaho BI Stack

The Quartz Scheduler - http://www.opensymphony.com/quartz

Quartz is a full-featured, open source job scheduling system. It is included in Pentaho and used to implement scheduled execution of action sequences.

Pentaho documentation on (controlling data access with) System Actions - http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/ServerDoc2x/Using+System+Actions+to+Control+Data+Access

This documentation explains how to control data access using action sequences.

Eclipse IDE - http://www.eclipse.org

The Eclipse IDE is a highly extensibe integrated development environment. Pentaho Design Studio is based on Eclipse.