SchedulerPlugin (Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler 2.4.0-rc1 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

JobInterruptMonitorPlugin, LoggingJobHistoryPlugin, LoggingTriggerHistoryPlugin, SchedulerPluginWithUserTransactionSupport, ShutdownHookPlugin, XMLSchedulingDataProcessorPlugin
```
public interface SchedulerPlugin
```
Provides an interface for a class to become a "plugin" to Quartz.

Plugins can do virtually anything you wish, though the most interesting ones will obviously interact with the scheduler in some way - either actively: by invoking actions on the scheduler, or passively: by being a JobListener, TriggerListener, and/or SchedulerListener.

If you use StdSchedulerFactory to initialize your Scheduler, it can also create and initialize your plugins - look at the configuration docs for details.

If you need direct access your plugin, you can have it explicitly put a reference to itself in the Scheduler's SchedulerContext as part of its initialize(String, Scheduler, ClassLoadHelper) method.

Author:

James House

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`initialize(java.lang.String name, Scheduler scheduler, ClassLoadHelper loadHelper)`	Called during creation of the `Scheduler` in order to give the `SchedulerPlugin` a chance to initialize.
`void`	`shutdown()`	Called in order to inform the `SchedulerPlugin` that it should free up all of it's resources because the scheduler is shutting down.
`void`	`start()`	Called when the associated `Scheduler` is started, in order to let the plug-in know it can now make calls into the scheduler if it needs to.

- Method Detail
  - initialize
```
void initialize(java.lang.String name,
                Scheduler scheduler,
                ClassLoadHelper loadHelper)
         throws SchedulerException
```
    Called during creation of the Scheduler in order to give the SchedulerPlugin a chance to initialize.
    
    At this point, the Scheduler's JobStore is not yet initialized.
    
    If you need direct access your plugin, for example during Job execution, you can have this method explicitly put a reference to this plugin in the Scheduler's SchedulerContext.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - The name by which the plugin is identified.
    
    scheduler - The scheduler to which the plugin is registered.
    
    loadHelper - The classLoadHelper the SchedulerFactory is actually using
    
    Throws:
    
    SchedulerConfigException - if there is an error initializing.
    
    SchedulerException
  - start
```
void start()
```
    Called when the associated Scheduler is started, in order to let the plug-in know it can now make calls into the scheduler if it needs to.
  - shutdown
```
void shutdown()
```
    Called in order to inform the SchedulerPlugin that it should free up all of it's resources because the scheduler is shutting down.