Difference between Quartz Job and Scheduling Tasks with Spring?

Question

I am new to Spring-boot(version 1.3.6) and Quartz and I am wondering what is the difference between making a task with Spring-scheduler:

    @Scheduled(fixedRate = 40000)
    public void reportCurrentTime() {
        System.out.println("Hello World");
    }

And the Quartz way:

0. Create sheduler.
1. Job which implements Job interface.
2. Create JobDetail which is instance of the job using the builder  org.quartz.JobBuilder.newJob(MyJob.class)
3. Create a Triger
4. Finally set the job and the trigger to the scheduler

In code:

  public class HelloJob implements Job {

    public HelloJob() {
    }

    public void execute(JobExecutionContext context)
      throws JobExecutionException
    {
      System.err.println("Hello!");
    }
  }

and the sheduler:

SchedulerFactory schedFact = new org.quartz.impl.StdSchedulerFactory();

  Scheduler sched = schedFact.getScheduler();

  sched.start();

  // define the job and tie it to our HelloJob class
  JobDetail job = newJob(HelloJob.class)
      .withIdentity("myJob", "group1")
      .build();

  // Trigger the job to run now, and then every 40 seconds
  Trigger trigger = newTrigger()
      .withIdentity("myTrigger", "group1")
      .startNow()
      .withSchedule(simpleSchedule()
          .withIntervalInSeconds(40)
          .repeatForever())
      .build();

  // Tell quartz to schedule the job using our trigger
  sched.scheduleJob(job, trigger);

Does Quartz provide more flexible way to define Jobs, Triggers and Schedulers or Spring Scheduler has something else which is better?

Answer 1

Spring Scheduler is an abstraction layer written to hide the implementations of Executors in different JDKs like Java SE 1.4, Java SE 5 and Java EE environments, which have their own specific implementations.

Quartz Scheduler is a fully fledged scheduling framework which allows CRON based or Simple periodic task execution.

Spring Scheduler does provide integration with Quartz scheduler in the form of a Trigger to use the full functionality of the Quartz scheduler.

Advantage of using Spring Scheduler without directly using the Quartz Scheduler specific classes is that the abstraction layer provides flexibility and loose coupling.