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Cronjobs using Quartz in JBossAS

With the introduction of EJB3 a new method for implementing cronjobs was added. These jobs uses quartz as framework and there are two ways to setup:

1. Variant: Defining a MDB-Consumer

The preferred way is the definition of an MDB-Consumer. The only thing you need is to implement the Job-Interface (org.quartz.Job) and add some Annotations to it:

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@MessageDriven(activationConfig = { @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "cronTrigger", propertyValue = "0/2 * * * * ?") })
@ResourceAdapter("quartz-ra.rar")
public class MySampleCronJob implements Job {
 
    public void execute(JobExecutionContext context) throws JobExecutionException {
        System.out.println("job is called");
    }
 
}

If this job should only be called once at a specific time, you can use the interface StatefulJob. When the job is called is defined in the property cronTrigger. A full documentation can be found at the Quartz-API-Documentation.
Pay attention that the Component only implements one interface or you have to define the property “messageListenerInterface” at @MessageDriven. Otherwise the deployer cannot find the using type. Especially if you use AspectJ this is important.

2. Variant: Using a Quartz-Service

This is the old version. You can define a managed-bean via an XML which instantiate a Quartz-Service.

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< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<server>
  <mbean code="org.quartz.ee.jmx.jboss.QuartzService" name="user:service=QuartzService,name=QuartzService">
    <attribute name="Properties">
      org.quartz.scheduler.instanceName = DefaultQuartzScheduler
      org.quartz.scheduler.rmi.export = false
      org.quartz.scheduler.rmi.proxy = false
      org.quartz.scheduler.xaTransacted = false
      org.quartz.threadPool.class = org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool
      org.quartz.threadPool.threadCount = 5
      org.quartz.threadPool.threadPriority = 4
    </attribute>
  </mbean>
</server>

Then you can use this managed bean to add a new trigger and to assign a job to this trigger. This code can be used in an own managed bean, which setups the application.

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public class CronManagementBean {
    @Resource(mappedName = "/Quartz")
    private Scheduler scheduler;
 
    public void start() {
        try {
            Trigger trigger = new CronTrigger("myTrigger",
                    "mygroup",
                    "0 0 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 ? * *");
 
            JobDetail jobDetail = new JobDetail("myJob",
                    "myjobgroup", StatusJob.class);
            scheduler.scheduleJob(jobDetail, trigger);
 
        } catch (SchedulerException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
 
    public void stop() {
        try {
            scheduler.deleteJob("myJob", "myjobgroup");
        } catch (SchedulerException e) {
            log.warn("shutdown fails", e);
        }
    }
}

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