Re: [Springframework-developer] Spring scheduler?

[Ivan R. <iv...@we...>]

Colin Sampaleanu wrote:
> Why not just take advantage of Quartz? It's free, and has an Apache/BSD 
> style license.
>  http://www.part.net/quartz.html
>  http://www.part.net/quartz_features.html

   I reviewed Quartz for my project before I decided to wrap my own,
   and decided against it because it was simply too complex and too
   intrusive for my taste (and it didn't have/does not have file system
   persistence). I don't think there is anything wrong with it (besides,
   I did not program in it I just read the documentation). My friend
   used to say "Never use a cannon to accomplish what you could with a
   stick".


> We've been using it for a while with good results. Personally, I don't 
> think it's a great idea to add functionality to Spring which duplicates 
> existing projects that are out there and that have open licenses, 
> _unless_ the Spring implementation has some clear advantages.

   Agreed.


> In this 
> respect, maybe what makes sense is some classes to integrate Quartz into 
> Spring...

   I don't think there's an easy way to bring Quartz to Spring because
   Quartz requires you to implement a particular interface and go with
   its triggers. Also, it has its own events.

   But I don't want this to turn into a "battle" about Quartz. I plan
   to approach this issue from a point of view of Spring, make a list
   of functionality we may need (which will be easy since I am doing
   a project where this functionality will be required). Only after
   that we can discuss whether an existing package can be integrated.
   Or, perhaps, implementations could be pluggable.

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