I downloaded the 1.6 build and it didn't work with the commons jar
provided in the zip. So I downloaded 1.5 and it had no errors at run
time. I am posting the the code I cooked up because it doesn't work as
intended. The setDaemon method was ignored. I want to eventually port
this code to a servlet in a Tomcat environment. Unless the thread can
be sent to background as daemon, I think there is no way to make it
fly. I tested the code on a RedHat Linux. I'd appreciate any comments.

Oh another thing, if I don't comment out the scheduler shutdown, the
trigger never fires!! What giveS?

import org.quartz.JobDetail;
import org.quartz.Scheduler;
import org.quartz.SchedulerFactory;
import org.quartz.SimpleTrigger;
import org.quartz.TriggerUtils;
import org.quartz.impl.StdSchedulerFactory;
import java.sql.Date;
import java.util.*;
public class t extends Thread {
       public void run() {
try{
       SchedulerFactory schedFact = new
org.quartz.impl.StdSchedulerFactory();

       Scheduler sched = schedFact.getScheduler();

       sched.start();

       JobDetail jobDetail = new JobDetail("myJob",
                                     null,
                                     HelloJob.class);
       jobDetail.getJobDataMap().put("input", "hello there again");
       long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis() + 10000L;

       SimpleTrigger trigger = new SimpleTrigger("myTrigger",
                                           null,
                                           new Date(startTime),
                                           null,
                                           0,
                                           0L);

       trigger.setName("myTrigger");
       sched.scheduleJob(jobDetail, trigger);
       //sched.shutdown(true);
}catch(Exception e) {}
       }
       public static void main (String [] args) {
               t ex = new t();
               //t.run();
               ex.setDaemon(true);
               ex.setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIORITY);
               ex.start();
               //System.exit(0);
       }
}
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