Quartz is a

job scheduling A job scheduler is a computer application for controlling unattended background program execution of job (computing), jobs. This is commonly called batch scheduling, as execution of non-interactive jobs is often called batch processing, though tr ...

library that can be integrated into a wide variety of

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applications. Quartz is generally used for enterprise class applications to support process workflow,

system management Systems management is enterprise-wide administration of distributed systems including (and commonly in practice) computer systems. Systems management is strongly influenced by network management initiatives in telecommunications. The applica ...

(maintenance) actions and to provide timely services within the applications. Quartz also supports clustering. Quartz is an

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product from the

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company. There is also a port to

.NET The .NET platform (pronounced as "''dot net"'') is a free and open-source, managed code, managed computer software framework for Microsoft Windows, Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The project is mainly developed by Microsoft emplo ...

, called Quartz.NET. The center part of the framework is the Scheduler. Which takes care of managing the runtime environment for user application.

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* * Java (programming language) libraries Job scheduling {{compu-library-stub