Quartz-Spring Integration

 The Spring team has done a fantastic job of integrating Quartz into their framework, and it has become a popular way to add Quartz to a project.

Spring's Documentation

I would highly recommend checking out the APIs as well as the Spring documentation because there are several handy classes and properties not mentioned in the documentation.

Spring 1.2.x

• Documentation
• Javadoc API

Spring 2.0.x

• Documentation
• Javadoc API

Tips

SchedulerFactoryBean's applicationContextSchedulerContextKey property

One often overlooked property of the Spring SchedulerFactoryBean is applicationContextSchedulerContextKey.  Set this property to a name such as "applicationContext" and Spring will put your ApplicationContext into the Scheduler's SchedulerContext under than name.  This is very handy for cases where you would like your Jobs to have access to the ApplicationContext to make use of other Spring beans.

For example:

public class MyJob implements Job {
    public void execute(JobExecutionContext jobContext) throws JobExecutionException {
        ApplicationContext appContext =
            (ApplicationContext)jobContext.getScheduler().getSchedulerContext().get("applicationContext");
    }
}