quartz scheduler jobs running continuously ignoring the cron schedule

Question

I am using spring 3.0.6 with quartz 2.1.6 with oracle db in cluster mode, I am using all the quartz apis as I faced issues with spring supported quartz api.

I had some dependencies in my job class which were not initializing, I passed those in the Scheduler context and then it is working.

The problem is my cron expression is to run every 5 minutes (0 0/5 * * * ?) but it keeps on running my jobs continuously.

I have created job, trigger in spring context and then passing that to scheduler.scheduleJob method

I have no clue why it is continuously executing the jobs, Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

How long does the job take? Is it starting again before the last one finishes?

There's an example of a periodic SimpleTrigger in the documentation. This may be simpler for you than the CronTrigger:

http://quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.1.x/tutorials/tutorial-lesson-05