Quartz Job Scheduling Framework: Building Open Source Enterprise Applications

Integrate Powerful Scheduling Capabilities into Any Java Application or Environment

 

If your Java applications depend on tasks that must be performed at specific times or if your systems have recurring maintenance jobs that could be automated, then you need Quartz: the first full-featured, open source job scheduling framework.

 

Quartz Job Scheduling Framework reveals how to make the most of Quartz with virtually any Java EE or Java SE application, from the smallest standalone program to the largest e-commerce application. Best-selling author Chuck Cavaness shows developers and architects how to integrate Quartz with leading open source Java frameworks, including Hibernate and Struts.

 

Using practical examples, Cavaness illuminates everything from basic job scheduling to the use of Quartz in clustered environments and enterprise workflow applications. To jumpstart your own Quartz projects, he also presents a full chapter of “cookbook” sample code. Coverage includes

 

• Understanding the value of scheduling in the enterprise environment

• Installing and configuring the Quartz framework

• Scheduling jobs, and triggering them on simple or complex schedules

• Using JobStores to persist schedule information between JVM restarts

• Using Listeners to receive callbacks from Quartz when key events occur

• Extending Quartz with Plugins

• Accessing Quartz through a Web-based graphical interface

• Clustering Quartz applications, both horizontally and vertically

• Using RMI to schedule Quartz remotely

• Leveraging Quartz to automate maintenance and workflow

 

Online Sample Chapter

Introduction to Quartz Job Scheduling Framework

Table of Contents

Foreword  xxi

Preface  xxiii

 

Chapter 1: Scheduling in the Enterprise  1

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Quartz  9

Chapter 3: Hello, Quartz  17

Chapter 4: Scheduling Jobs  45

Chapter 5: Cron Triggers and More  89

Chapter 6: JobStores and Persistence  105

Chapter 7: Implementing Quartz Listeners  133

Chapter 8: Using Quartz Plug-Ins  161

Chapter 9: Using Quartz Remotely  183

Chapter 10: Using Quartz with J2EE  199

Chapter 11: Clustering Quartz  215

Chapter 12: Quartz Cookbook  229

Chapter 13: Quartz and Web Applications  245

Chapter 14: Using Quartz with Workflow  267

 

Appendix A: Quartz Configuration Reference  293

 

Index  311