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

At the and I implemented it without quartz, using spring tasks:

beans = { 
    xmlns task: "http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"

    task.'scheduler'('id':"myScheduler", 'pool-size':"1")

    task.'scheduled-tasks'('scheduler':"myScheduler") {
        task.'scheduled'(ref:"myBean", method:"myBeanMethodToExec", 'fixed-delay':5000)
    }
}

(pool-size 1 I think is even not necessary, but to be sure 100% ;))