Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler 1.x Configuration Reference

Configure JDBC-JobStoreTX

JDBCJobStore is used to store scheduling information (job, triggers and calendars) within a relational database. There are actually two seperate JDBCJobStore classes that you can select between, depending on the transactional behaviour you need.

JobStoreTX manages all transactions itself by calling commit() (or rollback()) on the database connection after every action (such as the addition of a job). JDBCJobStore is appropriate if you are using Quartz in a stand-alone application, or within a servlet container if the application is not using JTA transactions.

The JobStoreTX is selected by setting the 'org.quartz.jobStore.class' property as such:

Setting The Scheduler's JobStore to JobStoreTX

org.quartz.jobStore.class = org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.JobStoreTX

JobStoreTX can be tuned with the following properties:

Property Name Required Type Default Value

org.quartz.jobStore.driverDelegateClass	yes	string	null
org.quartz.jobStore.dataSource	yes	string	null
org.quartz.jobStore.tablePrefix	no	string	"QRTZ_"
org.quartz.jobStore.useProperties	no	boolean	false
org.quartz.jobStore.misfireThreshold	no	int	60000
org.quartz.jobStore.isClustered	no	boolean	false
org.quartz.jobStore.clusterCheckinInterval	no	long	15000
org.quartz.jobStore.maxMisfiresToHandleAtATime	no	int	20
org.quartz.jobStore.dontSetAutoCommitFalse	no	boolean	false
org.quartz.jobStore.selectWithLockSQL	no	string	"SELECT * FROM {0}LOCKS WHERE LOCK_NAME = ? FOR UPDATE"
org.quartz.jobStore.txIsolationLevelSerializable	no	boolean	false
org.quartz.jobStore.acquireTriggersWithinLock	no	boolean	false
org.quartz.jobStore.lockHandler.class	no	string	null

org.quartz.jobStore.driverDelegateClass

Driver delegates understand the particular 'dialects' of varies database systems. Possible choices include:

• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.StdJDBCDelegate (for fully JDBC-compliant drivers)
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.MSSQLDelegate (for Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase)
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.PostgreSQLDelegate
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.WebLogicDelegate (for WebLogic drivers)
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.oracle.OracleDelegate
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.oracle.WebLogicOracleDelegate (for Oracle drivers used within Weblogic)
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.oracle.weblogic.WebLogicOracleDelegate (for Oracle drivers used within Weblogic)
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.CloudscapeDelegate
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.DB2v6Delegate
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.DB2v7Delegate
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.HSQLDBDelegate
• org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.PointbaseDelegate

Note that many databases are known to work with the StdJDBCDelegate, while others are known to work with delegates for other databases, for example Derby works well with the Cloudscape delegate (no surprise there).

org.quartz.jobStore.dataSource

The value of this property must be the name of one the DataSources defined in the configuration properties file. See theconfiguration docs for DataSources for more information.

org.quartz.jobStore.tablePrefix

JDBCJobStore's "table prefix" property is a string equal to the prefix given to Quartz's tables that were created in your database. You can have multiple sets of Quartz's tables within the same database if they use different table prefixes.

org.quartz.jobStore.useProperties

The "use properties" flag instructs JDBCJobStore that all values in JobDataMaps will be Strings, and therefore can be stored as name-value pairs, rather than storing more complex objects in their serialized form in the BLOB column. This is can be handy, as you avoid the class versioning issues that can arise from serializing your non-String classes into a BLOB.

org.quartz.jobStore.misfireThreshold

The the number of milliseconds the scheduler will 'tolerate' a trigger to pass its next-fire-time by, before being considered "misfired". The default value (if you don't make an entry of this property in your configuration) is 60000 (60 seconds).

org.quartz.jobStore.isClustered

Set to "true" in order to turn on clustering features. This property must be set to "true" if you are having multiple instances of Quartz use the same set of database tables... otherwise you will experience havoc. See the configuration docs for clustering for more information.

org.quartz.jobStore.clusterCheckinInterval

Set the frequency (in milliseconds) at which this instance "checks-in"* with the other instances of the cluster. Affects the quickness of detecting failed instances.

org.quartz.jobStore.maxMisfiresToHandleAtATime

The maximum number of misfired triggers the jobstore will handle in a given pass. Handling many (more than a couple dozen) at once can cause the database tables to be locked long enough that the performance of firing other (not yet misfired) triggers may be hampered.

org.quartz.jobStore.dontSetAutoCommitFalse

Setting this parameter to "true" tells Quartz not to call setAutoCommit(false) on connections obtained from the DataSource(s). This can be helpful in a few situations, such as if you have a driver that complains if it is called when it is already off. This property defaults to false, because most drivers require that setAutoCommit(false) is called.

org.quartz.jobStore.selectWithLockSQL

Must be a SQL string that selects a row in the "LOCKS" table and places a lock on the row. If not set, the default is "SELECT * FROM {0}LOCKS WHERE LOCK_NAME = ? FOR UPDATE", which works for most databases. The "{0}" is replaced during run-time with the TABLE_PREFIX that you configured above.

org.quartz.jobStore.txIsolationLevelSerializable

A value of "true" tells Quartz (when using JobStoreTX or CMT) to call setTransactionIsolation(Connection.TRANSACTION_SERIALIZABLE) on JDBC connections. This can be helpful to prevent lock timeouts with some databases under high load, and "long-lasting" transactions.

org.quartz.jobStore.acquireTriggersWithinLock

Whether or not the acquisition of next triggers to fire should occur within an explicit database lock. This was once necessary (in previous versions of Quartz) to avoid dead-locks with particular databases, but is no longer considered necessary, hence the default value is "false".

org.quartz.jobStore.lockHandler.class

The class name to be used to produce an instance of a org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.Semaphore to be used for locking control on the job store data. This is an advanced configuration feature, which should not be used by most users. By default, Quartz will select the most appropriate (pre-bundled) Semaphore implementation to use. "org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.UpdateLockRowSemaphore" QUARTZ-497 may be of interest to MS SQL Server users. SeeQUARTZ-441.