SpringBoot @Scheduled doesn't work

Question

I have a very simple web application for testing the @Scheduled annotation. The method read() in the class RetrievePrices is annotated with @Scheduled . After deploying the war on Tomcat, I was expecting that the read method should be executed every 5 seconds, but nothing is displayed in the Tomcat console.

The Main SpringBoot class

package com.aaaa.main;

import org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.annotation.EnableBatchProcessing;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.EnableScheduling;

@SpringBootApplication
public class BatchMain {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        SpringApplication.run(BatchMain.class, args);
    }

}

The Class whith a method annotated with @Scheduled

package com.aaaa.schedule;

import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;

public class RetrievePrices {

    @Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000)
    public void read() {

        System.out.println(" *************  Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000) ");
}

A very simple Spring Configuration Class

package com.aaaa.config;

@Configuration
@ComponentScan("com.aaaa")
@EnableScheduling
public class MyConfiguration {
}

The POM

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.10.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>
    <artifactId>batch</artifactId>
    <name>Batch processes</name>
    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
        <Postgres.version>9.4-1200-jdbc41</Postgres.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-batch</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>    
</project>

The updated class RetrievePrices

package com.aaaa.schedule;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;

import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class RetrievePrices {

    @Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000)
    public void read() {

        System.out.println(" *************  into @Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000) ");
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void postConstruct() {
        System.out.println(" *************  postConstruct ************** ");
    }
}

Answer 1

Your RetrievePrices class does not have any sort of annotation to get picked up by the Spring scanning. Add @Component annotation for example and it should run fine.

Example:

@SpringBootApplication(scanBasePackages = { "com.aaaa" })
@EnableScheduling
public class BootApplication {

//
} 

Answer 2

Creating a Simple Scheduler in SpringBoot (Working Code)

1. Application Class

   package com.springboot.test;
   
   import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
   import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
   import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.EnableScheduling;
   
   @EnableScheduling
   @SpringBootApplication
   public class TestApplication {
   
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       SpringApplication.run(TestApplication.class, args);
   }
   }
   

2. Controller Class

   package com.springboot.test;
   
   import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;
   import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
   
   @RestController
   public class SchedulerTest {
   
       @Scheduled(fixedRate=2000)
       public void name() {
       System.out.println("HI");   
           }
   }
   

3. pom.xml

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   
   <groupId>com.springboot</groupId>
   <artifactId>test</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   
   <name>test</name>
   <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
   
   <parent>
       <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
       <version>2.0.4.RELEASE</version>
       <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
   </parent>
   
   <properties>
       <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
       <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
       <java.version>1.8</java.version>
   </properties>
   
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
           <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
       </dependency>
   
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
           <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
           <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   
   <build>
       <plugins>
           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
               <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
           </plugin>
       </plugins>
   </build>
   </project>
   

This Simple test code is Working for me.

Answer 3

If you use springBoot 2.4.x (Spring 5 version), to get @Scheduled to work, you will have to define its method in a seperate file class from the @SpringBootApplication file annotated class. The new class must be a component, so must be annotated with @Component, also add the annotation @EnableScheduling at the same class level, for the all thing to work. Hope this helped.