Spring, Quartz and Auto-wiring of Quartz jobs

Facing Null Pointer Exceptions in Quartz jobs? This is an example on how to do Spring Quartz Integration with Auto-wiring.

Quartz Enterprise scheduler is a neat application that lets you setup periodic jobs within a J2EE or J2SE environment. Quartz is not as powerful as other commercial enterprise job schedulers like Autosys but its ability to run simple cron-like jobs within an Application server environment is commendable.  Above all Quartz and Spring integrates very nicely with a little effort.

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