# Introduction {% hint style="danger" %} Doddle is a work in progress and there is likely to be quite a few bugs and outdated documentation. Use at your own risk. {% endhint %} Doddle is a **background job system** designed to make scheduling jobs in Java as **simple as possible** without being tied to a particular framework or storage provider. Out of the box, Doddle comes with the following features: * A web dashboard for monitoring jobs * Enqueue immediately or in the future jobs * Queues with a given priority * Scheduled jobs, otherwise known as, CRON jobs. * Encryption of job arguments * Retry and back-off strategies * REST API to fetch information about jobs And much more! --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://jamhall.gitbook.io/doddle/getting-started/introduction.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.