Download Quartz Job Scheduler

In this section we will download Quartz Job Scheduler from its distribution web site and then create development environment in the eclipse integrated development environment.

Downloading Quartz Job Scheduler

Quartz is an open source enterprise grade software for the development of Job Scheduling application in java. Quartz Scheduler is from OpenSymphony which can be downloaded from http://www.opensymphony.com/. At the time of writing this tutorial the latest version of Quartz Scheduler is 1.6.0. You can download the latest version of software and then try. For this tutorial we have downloaded quartz-1.6.0.zip.

After downloading the zip file extract it and you will find the following directory in the extracted directory. 

Here is the description of files and directories:

Setting Up Development project in Eclipse

Run the eclipse IDE and create new java project. From the file menu select --> New --> Project

New Project dialog box displayed as follows:

Select "Java Project" and click on the "Next >" button.

Enter "Quartz Project" in the Project Name text box and click on the "Finish" button to create the project. A new project is created and following screen is displayed.

Adding required quartz libraries to the project

Copy the lib directory and all the jar files from the unzipped directory and then paste into the eclipse project (Ctrl +C and Ctrl +V).

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Open the project property and then add all the jar files into the build path as shown below.

and then click on the "OK" button.

Now your development environment is ready for the development. In the next section we will develop a simple scheduler application that prints "Hello Quartz Scheduler" on the console at particular time interval.