Question: can anyone give me pointers to a library/way of getting country specific calendars. THis is because I am looking to implement Quartz and would like to use different calendars for different countries.

THank you

Answer: 
I would suggest trying Joda Time 

<http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/>

, which has different Chronologies.
JodaTime is a very good api to manipulate those things.

<http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/>