Technobabble

Java, XML, and cron driven scheduling made easy.

Projects here and there often need some kind of mechanism to schedule jobs at odd hours, or intervals. Quartz is a robust, flexible tool you can use to accomplish simple to complex job scheduling. There are a number of ways to use/configure quartz, but I’ve grown accustomed to using it with an xml based configuration. There are a few things we need to set up unfortunately, so there is a certain amount of plumbing we need to work out, but once that infrastructure is set up, its much less work…

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