The new JBoss-4.0.5 GA

[alexsooner]

Hi:

can anybody tell me what is "quartz-ra.rar" doing in
the deploy directory?

thanks.

[genman]

It's for deploying timers and MDB for timers.

[alexsooner]

so, is it gonna used by users or by JBoss itself?

thanks for the reply.

[weston.price]

It's a JCA compliant resource adapter that allows for message listener to create and register for Quartz events (triggers). It is not limited to JBoss or to users but can be used by both.

[alexsooner]

thanks.
so is there a documentation or API to tell us how to use it? I can not find any examples related to this. The reason I am asking is I am trying to add a Quartz service to JBoss server, but if it is already there, then i can just use it.

[weston.price]

The Quartz RAR is really directed towards messasge inflow and not geneal Quartz usuage inside of JBoss per se. For example, the Quartz RAR assumes that Quartz has already exists and is running with the app server. You will want to take a look at the EJB3 documentation. I am not sure if this has been updated in awhile.

For the general case, you can take a look at the Quartz project itself. They alredy have numerous examples and sample configurations for using Quartz inside JBoss.