Scheduling Task in Spring/Java

Question

I am spawning a thread which will keep pulling the chunk of records from database and putting them into the queue. This thread will be started on the server load. I want thi

Answer 1

You can use the @Scheduled annotation to run jobs. First create a class with a method that is annotated with @Scheduled.

Class

public class GitHubJob {

   @Scheduled(fixedDelay = 604800000)
   public void perform() {
      //do Something
    }
}

Then register this class in your configuration files.

spring-context.xml

For more about scheduling visit the Spring Docs.