how to create spring quartz like application?

Hi i want to create an application that works like spring quartz i can use the spring quartz to do the same my native goal is to create job which may have more then one steps to be executed (trigerred) after that there may be dep开发者_StackOverflowended jobs also and we shold give the functionality to skip the next execution of particular job.

can any one provide the guidance how the spring quartz actually works? how to create such application in java using spring ?

thanx in advance.

Thank you everybody for spending your valuable time to reply me I got it work and i found following links very useful.

http://www.mkyong.com/spring/spring-quartz-scheduler-example/ http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/scheduling.html

That all sounds like stuff you can do with spring/quartz and a queue to queue up your "steps" in.