Cron Timer functionality using Spring and Quartz

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Quartz

• ensure you have Quartz libs available
• add the following to your Spring configuration file

<!-- Detail of the bean that will be called -->
	<bean id="PointerToMethodThatWeCall"
		class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean">
		<property name="targetObject" ref="OurSpringBean" />
		<property name="targetMethod" value="methodNameToCall" />
		<property name="concurrent" value="true" /> <!--wait until previous call completes -->
	</bean>
 
	<!-- Detail of how often we call the Overnight bean -->
	<bean id="HowOftenWeCallTrigger"
		class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SimpleTriggerBean">
		<!-- see the example of method invoking job above -->
		<property name="jobDetail" ref="PointerToMethodThatWeCall" />
		<!-- 20 seconds to allow for startup-->
		<property name="startDelay" value="2000" />
		<!-- repeat every 24 hours -->
		<property name="repeatInterval" value="86400000" />
	</bean>
 
	<!-- Overall Quartz list of time based triggers -->
 
		<bean
		class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean">
		<property name="triggers">
		<list>
		  <ref bean="HowOftenWeCallTrigger" />
 
		</list>
		</property>
		</bean>

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