Easy way to schedule a job to run for a set period?

Is there an easy way to schedule (dbms_scheduler) a job to run for a set period -say, half an hour- and then to stop.
Currently, I schedule a procedure to do the work (a bunch of inserts or updates, say) and the first line of that procedure assigns sysdate to a variable when it starts. Then as the procedure loops through its work, I compare the current sysdate with that original one, and if the new sysdate>original one by more than 30 minutes, I raise an application error. But it's messy, and I was wondering if there was a nicer way of doing it?

"Admin" -I think you'll find that 'end_time' merely states a time after which the job will not be run. It doesn't do anything to kill off a job which is already running at the time that comes round. Similarly, repeat_interval merely states how often the job should be run, not a time interval within which it must run and outside of which it must stop being run.
Satish: your suggestion looks great. Do you have, or know of, any examples where that is used, though? The doco you pointed to says the parameter raises an event, but that it's up to my event handler to deal with it. I wouldn't have the first idea of how to deal with this in code myself. If I could see a simple example, it would help a lot! Unfortunately, that page doesn't contain such an example!

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