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

@Scheduled(fixedDelay=3600000)
private void refreshValues() {
   [...]
}

That runs a task once every hour. It needs to be void and accept no arguments. If you use Spring's Java configuration you'll also need to add the annotation @EnableScheduling to one of your @Configuration classes.