Creating @Scheduled services

Spring 5 still supports batch processes or service transactions whose executions are triggered by time, just like any timer-based applications. The following recipe highlights the creation of batched transactions that run inside the Spring MVC container.

Getting started

Open a project, ch08, and add the following time-driven @Service methods.

How to do it...

Scheduled services are usually used to implement batch processing that can run simultaneously with the request handlers. To create these types of services, follow these steps:

1. To enable schedule-based transactions, create a context definition SpringScheduledConfig which implements org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.SchedulingConfigurer. Apply the class-level annotation @EnableScheduling and override the method configureTasks() with the preferred configurations of org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskScheduler injected in it:

@Configuration 
@EnableScheduling 
public class SpringScheduledConfig...