Java Example: Dynamic Job Scheduling with Quartz

Question

I want to expose an user interface to define Quartz JOBs dynamically. Where user should have facility to define JOBs properties like JOB name, cron expression or time interval, specific java class for task etc.

Is there any Open Source that facilitates this feature? Or, If I want to create my own module for dynamic Quartz Scheduler, what should be the way to do so?

Answer 1

Example code for Dynamic Quartz JOB Scheduling:

Maven Dependencies

         <dependency>
            <groupId>org.quartz-scheduler</groupId>
            <artifactId>quartz</artifactId>
            <version>1.8.5</version>
         </dependency>
            <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>

Application Context File (dynamic-jobs.xml)

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
            http://www.springmodules.org/schema/ehcache http://www.springmodules.org/schema/cache/springmodules-ehcache.xsd">


    <!-- The Task Bean-->
    <bean id="myTask" class="com.xxx.example.dynamicjob.MyTask" />

    <!-- The quartz scheduler configuration -->
    <bean id="scheduler" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean"/>

</beans>

Java Class for Task

package com.xxx.example.dynamicjob;

    public class MyTask
    {
        public void performAction() {
            System.out.println("Hey, you reached me...:)");
        }          
    }

Java Class to Create Dynamic Job

package com.xxx.example.dynamicjob;
import org.quartz.JobDetail;
import org.quartz.Scheduler;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
import org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.CronTriggerBean;
import org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean;

public class DynamicJobExample {

    /**
    * @param args
    */
    public static void main(String[] args) {

                ClassPathResource res = new ClassPathResource("dynamic-jobs.xml");
                XmlBeanFactory factory = new XmlBeanFactory(res);

                //get the quartzFactory bean
                Scheduler scheduler = (Scheduler) factory.getBean("scheduler");

                //get the task bean
                MyTask myTask = (MyTask) factory.getBean("myTask");

                try {
                // create JOB
                MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean jobDetail = new MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean();
                jobDetail.setTargetObject(myTask);
                jobDetail.setTargetMethod("performAction");
                jobDetail.setName("MyJobDetail");
                jobDetail.setConcurrent(false);
                jobDetail.afterPropertiesSet();

                /* SimpleTriggerBean trigger = new SimpleTriggerBean();
                trigger.setBeanName("MyTrigger");
                trigger.setJobDetail((JobDetail) jobDetail.getObject());
                trigger.setRepeatInterval(5000);
                trigger.afterPropertiesSet();
                */

                // create CRON Trigger
                CronTriggerBean cronTrigger = new CronTriggerBean();
                cronTrigger.setBeanName("CRON0001");

                // Execute after each 5 second
                String expression = "5 * * * * ?";
                cronTrigger.setCronExpression(expression);
                cronTrigger.afterPropertiesSet();

                //scheduler.scheduleJob(jobDetail, cronTrigger);

                scheduler.scheduleJob((JobDetail) jobDetail.getObject(), cronTrigger);

                // Start Scheduler        
                scheduler.start();

                } catch (Exception e) {                      
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } 
    }
}