Spring Task Scheduler vs Quartz
Platform/Language: Java
Components Versions: Spring 3.0, Quartz 1.8.4
Go for Spring’s light weight task scheduler implementation, if you’ve just SIMPLE requirements..
- run tasks once after specified time
- schedule tasks to run repeatedly (fixed-rate as well as fixed delay)
- scheduling tasks based on simple cron expressions, etc.
On the other hand, if you’ve COMPLEX requirements – say, you’ve promised to deliver enterprise-class features like Persistent triggers, Clustering, JTA Transactions, etc. – Quartz scheduler is what you need.
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- Published:
- November 27, 2010 / 5:49 PM
- Category:
- Choice of Appln Components, Design decisions
- Tags:
- Java, Quartz, Spring, Task Scheduler

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