Quartz Job Scheduling Framework

Chapter 14. Using Quartz with Workflow

Quartz does a fabulous job of what it was designed to do. Unfortunately, the jobs required to run a business are often a little more complicated than a single job or task can be. Every year millions of dollars are spent on understanding, designing, and constructing business processes for organizations. The Quartz framework includes some simple facilities that can be used to chain multiple jobs together to construct a simplified business process model. This chapter discusses how you can use Quartz to connect jobs. For true workflow operability, you need something more than what comes with the Quartz framework. This chapter looks at how you can extend the Quartz framework to achieve workflow for your jobs. ...