Spring Quartz Scheduler- Wiring up jobs using triggers and the SchedulerFactoryBean

Spring provides the feature of scheduling task. In this example we will see how to create a simple helloworld task and schedule it using Spring.

Dependencies

<dependency>
 <groupid>org.quartz-scheduler</groupid>
 <artifactid>quartz</artifactid>
 <version>1.8.5</version>
</dependency>
 <!-- QuartzJobBean in spring-context-support.jar -->
<dependency>
 <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>
 <artifactid>spring-context-support</artifactid>
 <version>3.0.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
 
<dependency>
 <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>
 <artifactid>spring-tx</artifactid>
 <version>3.0.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
 
<dependency>
 <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>
 <artifactid>spring-core</artifactid>
 <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
 <groupid>org.springframework</groupid>
 <artifactid>spring-context</artifactid>
 <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

JobDetail class

package com.vinod.spring;

import org.quartz.JobExecutionContext;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionException;
import org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.QuartzJobBean;

public class HelloworldJob extends QuartzJobBean {

 @Override
 protected void executeInternal(JobExecutionContext arg0)
   throws JobExecutionException {
  System.out.println("Executing helloworld job.......");
 }

}

Spring Configuration

<bean class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.JobDetailBean" id="helloworldjob">
 <property name="jobClass" value="com.vinod.spring.HelloworldJob">
 </property></bean>
  
  
 <bean class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.CronTriggerBean" id="helloWorldJobTrigger">
  <property name="jobDetail" ref="helloworldjob">
  <property name="cronExpression" value="0 0/1 * 1/1 * ? *">
</property></property></bean>
 
 
 <bean class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean" id="schedulerFactoryBean">
  <property name="jobDetails">
   <list>
    <ref bean="helloworldjob">
   </ref></list>
  </property>
  <property name="triggers">
   <list>
    <ref bean="helloWorldJobTrigger">
   </ref></list>
  </property>
 </bean>

Note: Use http://www.cronmaker.com/ to generate cron expressions (in this example task scheduled for every minutes)

Main class

package com.vinod.spring;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

/**
 *@authorvinod.kumaran
 *
 */
public class HelloWorldJobExecuter {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
  ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
    "spring-job-context.xml");
 }

}

Output

Executing helloworld job.......
Executing helloworld job.......
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Executing helloworld job.......
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