Chapter 6. JobStores and Persistence

Quartz uses JobStores to provide a storage mechanism for jobs, triggers, calendars, and Scheduler data. The Scheduler uses the configured JobStore to store and retrieve scheduling information and to determine its responsibilities for triggering jobs. All knowledge about which jobs to execute and on what schedule to execute them comes from the JobStore. This chapter looks at the various types of JobStores available in Quartz—how to use each one and which one makes sense for your requirements.

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Job Storage

In the previous chapters, we didn’t spend any time discussing where the job and trigger information for the Scheduler was stored. ...

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