spring

Comparing Quartz, cron4j and Obsidian Scheduler

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We’ve all worked on projects that required us to do very basic tasks at periodic intervals. Perhaps we chose a basic ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor. If we’re already using Spring, maybe we tried their TaskExecutor/TaskScheduler support. But once we encounter any number of situations such as an increased quantity of tasks, new interdependencies between tasks, unexpected problems in … Read more

Swapping out Spring Bean Configuration at Runtime

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Most Java developers these days deal with Spring on a regular basis and there are lots of us out there that have become familiar with its abilities as well as its limitations. I recently came across a problem that I hadn’t hit before: introducing the ability to rewire a bean’s internals based on configuration introduced … Read more