Using CDI in Quartz Jobs

Question

I would like to know if it is possible to use CDI beans in Quartz jobs in a portable way?

I have already tried to write my own JobFactory and so on, but the problem is, that the BeanManager is not available through JNDI, because the job runs in a non managed thread. My application server is Websphere 8.0.0.1 and I already read that it is against the EE6 spec to make the name "java:" available to non managed threads.

There are two solutions now I think:

1. Let Websphere create the worker threads(Don't know how to do that, any help would be nice)
2. Implement an EJB and call the method through the EJBJobInvoker

I know that, when I use the CDI solution, then I am not able to let the worker threads run in a different JVM, correct me if I am wrong. To stay scaleable I should implement an EJB for that? What do you think, have you ever had that problem? I would also appreciate different solutions or even suggestions on different scheduler libraries!

Answer 1

Look at DeltaSpike scheduler module.

You can find last version on Maven Central Repository.