How to parameterize @Scheduled(fixedDelay) with Spring 3.0 expression language?

Question

Spring v3.2.2 has added String parameters to the original 3 long parameters to handle this. fixedDelayString, fixedRateString and initialDelayString are now available too.

@Scheduled(fixedDelayString = "${my.fixed.delay.prop}")
public void readLog() {
        ...
}

You can use the @Scheduled annotation, but together with the cron parameter only:

@Scheduled(cron = "${yourConfiguration.cronExpression}")

Your 5 seconds interval could be expressed as "*/5 * * * * *". However as I understand you cannot provide less than 1 second precision.

I guess the @Scheduled annotation is out of question. So maybe a solution for you would be to use task-scheduled XML configuration. Let's consider this example (copied from Spring doc):

<task:scheduled-tasks scheduler="myScheduler">
    <task:scheduled ref="someObject" method="readLog" 
               fixed-rate="#{YourConfigurationBean.stringValue}"/>
</task:scheduled-tasks>

... or if the cast from String to Long didn't work, something like this would:

<task:scheduled-tasks scheduler="myScheduler">
    <task:scheduled ref="someObject" method="readLog"
            fixed-rate="#{T(java.lang.Long).valueOf(YourConfigurationBean.stringValue)}"/>
</task:scheduled-tasks>

Again, I haven't tried any of these setups, but I hope it might help you a bit.

In Spring Boot 2, we can use Spring Expression Language (SpPL) for @Scheduled annotation properties:

@Scheduled(fixedRateString = "${fixed-rate.in.milliseconds}")
public void fixedRate() {
    // do something here
}

@Scheduled(fixedDelayString = "${fixed-delay.in.milliseconds}")
public void fixedDelay() {
    // do something here
}

@Scheduled(cron = "${cron.expression}")
public void cronExpression() {
    // do something here
}

The application.properties file will look like this:

fixed-rate.in.milliseconds=5000
fixed-delay.in.milliseconds=4000
cron.expression=0 15 5 * * FRI

That's it. Here is an article that explains task scheduling in detail.