spring batch vs quartz jobs?

Question

I am new to batch processing. I am trying to start with simple scheduler and job. But i am confused b/w spring batch vs quartz jobs. My understanding is

Quartz :- quartz provides both frameworks i.e scheduler framework and job framework(in case I do not want to use spring batch jobs). Right ?

Spring Batch :- It only provides the job framework . I have always send using Quatz schecduler to schedule spring batch jobs. Does spring provides its own scheduler also ?

Answer 1

Quartz is a scheduling framework. Like "execute something every hour or every last friday of the month"

Spring Batch is a framework that defines that "something" that will be executed. You can define a job, that consists of steps. Usually a step is something that consists of item reader, optional item processor and item writer, but you can define a custom stem. You can also tell Spring batch to commit on every 10 items and a lot of other stuff.

You can use Quartz to start Spring Batch jobs.

So basically Spring Batch defines what should be done, Quartz defines when it should be done.