Accessing property values in Annotations

Question

I want to access a property value in my annotation, as an attribute\'s value.

For ex. in my property file I have an entry expression: 3/10 * * * * ?.

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Answer 1

You can try to use the APT (annotation processing tool) to replace the value in the annotation with a value from the property file.

Answer 2

From spring 3.0.1 you can do it like this @Scheduled(cron = "${rates.refresh.cron}")

Refer to http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?83053-Feature-Scheduled-with-Value-cron-expression

However, you cannot do this for fixDelay and fixRate due to type casting problem (fixDelay expects value in long, while annotation return String only). Check Mark's comments in https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-6670