IT:AD:Quartz.NET

Summary

Quartz.NET is a C# port of the Java library of the same name.
Key components are:
- Schedulers
- Jobs (really just an ICommand)
- JobDetails (the state for the Job Command)
- Triggers
- JobListeners
The loose coupling between Jobs and Triggers allows a powerful many-to-many configuration(many triggers to one job, or one trigger setting off many jobs).
Pros:
- Works in a .NET app.
- Free standing: no coupling to the windows scheduling mechanism.
Cons:
- Not available for .NET20.
- Has a dependency on the open source CommonLogger library. Shame!

In a Scheduler, you register a newJobDetail, that wrap a Job.
- The JobDetail contains variables needed by the Job at execution time.
If you want the Job to be able to update tracking variables, the Job has to inherit from IStatefulJob rather than just IJob.
Only allowed to throw JobExecutionException
* Examples on the site are out of date.
- See this page for later API examples.