What Is Workflow?

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The Web is full of definitions and examples of what one person or group thinks workflow is. Some define workflow as "the automation of the back office." Others use the phrase, "business processing modeling," and charge a lot of money for consulting fees explaining it to you. For the purposes of this chapter, we use the following definition of workflow:

A workflow is a set of interdependent tasks that occur in a specific sequence.

As we get further into the chapter, this definition will become clearer.

What Does Workflow Have to Do with Quartz?

If you're asking, "What does workflow have to work Quartz?" the answer is, "Quite a bit." Even for simple tasks such as performing automated builds or just sending e-mails, workflow has a place. Quartz supports some basic approaches to chaining jobs together. This chapter discusses those and shows how to integrate Quartz with a popular open source workflow solution.


Job Chaining in Quartz

Scheduling in the Enterprise

Getting Started with Quartz

Hello, Quartz

Scheduling Jobs

Cron Triggers and More

JobStores and Persistence

Implementing Quartz Listeners

Using Quartz Plug-Ins

Using Quartz Remotely

Using Quartz with J2EE

Clustering Quartz

Quartz Cookbook

Quartz and Web Applications

Using Quartz with Workflow

Appendix A. Quartz Configuration Reference



Quartz Job Scheduling Framework(c) Building Open Source Enterprise Applications
Quartz Job Scheduling Framework: Building Open Source Enterprise Applications
ISBN: 0131886703
EAN: 2147483647
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Pages: 148

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