the container-control module provided by deltaspike is very powerful. recently i created a
simple cdi integration for junit based on this module. integrating a scheduler like quartz is even easer. therefore i prototyped a very simple (= only cron-expressions are supported)
deltaspike scheduler add-on. the default-implementation delegates to quartz, however, it's possible to integrate it with any scheduler (if cron-expressions are supported).
the major use-case is simple. just annotate your job-implementations (in case of quartz: org.quartz.Job) with @Scheduled(cronExpression = "[your expression]") and it will be scheduled/installed automatically at the end of the bootstrapping process.
it's possible to use cdi based injection:
furthermore, the request- and session-scope get started (and stopped) per job-execution. however, it can be controlled via @Scheduled#startScopes and it's possible to provide a description as well as a type-safe job-group.
beyond that it's also possible to inject the scheduler and control (scheduleJob, interruptJob, startJobManually,...) it manually - e.g.:
With 'false' for @Scheduled#onStartup it's even possible to schedule/install jobs dynamically - e.g.:
Update:
This add-on is part of all versions of DeltaSpike after v0.5
