In my project I required to write some background jobs for scheduled processing. I did it using quartz scheduler with spring, but quite often it required me to execute the tasks at random without schedule. So later I pulled out the tasks from the quartz and created web endpoints for them(exposed internally).
To perform the regular scheduled based operation of tasks, I created unix cron jobs that hit the web endpoints using curl command.
My question is, why could this approach not work always. Even in case you don't want to expose web endpoints, you can always execute standalone tasks using unix cron. Is there any particular advantage I gain by using quartz scheduler over unix cron jobs?
