How to prevent concurrent execution of a job in Grails?

Question

I have a quartz job in grails, that needs to be executed in every 5s, but I need this sequentially. In some situations the execution of the job exceeds this 5s, in this case I d

Answer 1

For Quartz-based jobs concurrency is achieved using

static concurrent = false

in the job class.

Note the static in the definition, this is needed instead of def concurrent = false at least since version 2.0.12. See the Quartz documentation.