title: Quartz job Vs. Thread for immediate one time task
body: <p>Let's say I have some unit of work that needs to get done and I want to do it asynchronously relative to the rest of my application because it can take a long time e.g. 10 seconds to 2 minutes. To accomplish this I'm considering two options: </p>
  
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  <li>Schedule a Quartz job with a simple trigger set to fire only once and as soon as possible. </li>
  <li>Create a Runnable instance, hand it off to a Thread, and call <code>run();</code>.</li>
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  <p>In the context of the above I have the following questions: </p>
  
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  <li>What does using the Quartz job get me that the thread doesn't have? </li>
  <li>What does using the runable get me that using the quartz job doesn't? </li>
  <li>In terms of best practices, what criteria ought be used for deciding between Quartz jobs and runnables for this use case? </li>
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