Integrating Webwork and Quartz - WebWork 1

Integrating Webwork with Quartz is very easy and also very powerful. The following class performs the glue between Quartz and Webwork:

import org.quartz.Job;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionContext;
import org.quartz.JobExecutionException;
import webwork.action.ActionContext;
import webwork.dispatcher.GenericDispatcher;

public class WebworkJob implements Job
{
  public void execute(JobExecutionContext context) throws JobExecutionException
  {
    try
    {
      ActionContext.setParameters(context.getJobDetail().getJobDataMap());
      GenericDispatcher dispatcher = new 
                             GenericDispatcher(context.getJobDetail().getName());
      dispatcher.prepareValueStack();
      dispatcher.executeAction();
      dispatcher.finish();
      dispatcher.finalizeContext();
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
      throw new JobExecutionException(e);
    }
  }
}

To schedule webwork actions you simply create a job where

the name of your job is the name of the WW action to execute (no ".action" suffix).
all the parameters you want to send to the WW action is contained in the JobDataMap of the JobDetail

(I have set up the Quartz scheduler as a servlet according to the javadocs of org.quartz.ee.servlet.QuartzInitializerServlet.)

I have a mail action that I can schedule with the following code:

Scheduler scheduler = StdSchedulerFactory.getDefaultScheduler();

JobDetail jobDetail = new JobDetail("email.send", 
                                     scheduler.DEFAULT_GROUP, WebworkJob.class);

Map m = jobDetail.getJobDataMap();
m.put("to", "me@bogusdomain.com");
m.put("subject", "quartz test");
m.put("body", "This is a quartz test, Hey ho");
m.put("smtpServer", "smtp.bogusdomain.com");
m.put("from", "quartz@bogusdomain.com");

SimpleTrigger trigger = new SimpleTrigger("myTrigger", 
                                          scheduler.DEFAULT_GROUP, 
                                          new Date(), null, 0, 0L);

scheduler.deleteJob("email.send", scheduler.DEFAULT_GROUP);
scheduler.scheduleJob(jobDetail, trigger);