Announcing a minor revision to the JGSI Quartz Tools. Quartz is a java library for scheduling jobs, which we did not write. However, Patrick, with whom I work, wished that Quartz had an XML configuration format, so he put one together. So you could call it the JGSI Quartz Tool (singular), but that doesn’t sound as good. Besides, he also wrote a PlugIn which makes it easy to use Quartz in the Struts web application framework. This is packaged separately as part of the JGSI Struts Tools, which while a small library, is still properly plural. Those libraries haven’t changed.
Recently, a person attempting to use the libraries posted to the struts-user mailing list reporting some ClassLoader problems when deploying in an EAR in JBoss. As a potential fix, I added a line which tells Digester to use the ContextClassLoader. Since we weren’t experiencing the problem, we’re not really sure this is a solution, but it seems like the right thing to do anyway. Since there isn’t a lot of other stuff going on in the Quartz libraries, it made sense to cut a release, however small, just to make it easier for people to use it.