inject bean reference into a Quartz job in Spring?

You can use this SpringBeanJobFactory to automatically autowire quartz objects using spring:

import org.quartz.spi.TriggerFiredBundle;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.AutowireCapableBeanFactory;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware;
import org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SpringBeanJobFactory;
 
public final class AutowiringSpringBeanJobFactory extends SpringBeanJobFactory implements
    ApplicationContextAware {
 
    private transient AutowireCapableBeanFactory beanFactory;
 
    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(final ApplicationContext context) {
        beanFactory = context.getAutowireCapableBeanFactory();
    }
 
    @Override
    protected Object createJobInstance(final TriggerFiredBundle bundle) throws Exception {
        final Object job = super.createJobInstance(bundle);
        beanFactory.autowireBean(job);
        return job;
    }
}

Then, attach it to your SchedulerBean (in this case, with Java-config):

@Bean
public SchedulerFactoryBean quartzScheduler() {
    SchedulerFactoryBean quartzScheduler = new SchedulerFactoryBean();

    ...

    AutowiringSpringBeanJobFactory jobFactory = new AutowiringSpringBeanJobFactory();
    jobFactory.setApplicationContext(applicationContext);
    quartzScheduler.setJobFactory(jobFactory);

    ...

    return quartzScheduler;
}

Working for me, using spring-3.2.1 and quartz-2.1.6.

Check out the complete gist here.

I found the solution in this blog post