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Spring - Configuring @Scheduled annotation with external properties

[Last Updated: Oct 30, 2025]

@Scheduled annotation's attributes fixedDelayString, fixedRateString, initialDelayString and cron allow to use external properties via property placeholder such as ${my.app.myProp}

Example

Example Property file

src/main/resources/scheduling.properties

fixed-rate=2000
fixed-delay=3000
initial-delay=1000
cron-expression=*/4 * * * * *

The bean methods using @Scheduled with external properties

package com.logicbig.example;

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

import java.time.LocalTime;

@Component
public class MyBean {

  @Scheduled(initialDelayString = "${initial-delay}",
          fixedDelayString = "${fixed-delay}")
  public void runTask() {
      System.out.printf("Running scheduled task1 " +
                      " thread: %s, time: %s%n",
              Thread.currentThread().getName(),
              LocalTime.now());
  }

  @Scheduled(initialDelayString = "${initial-delay}",
          fixedRateString = "${fixed-rate}")
  public void runTask2() {
      System.out.printf("Running scheduled task2 " +
                      " thread: %s, time: %s%n",
              Thread.currentThread().getName(),
              LocalTime.now());
  }

  @Scheduled(cron = "${cron-expression}")
  public void runTask3() {
      System.out.printf("Running scheduled task3 " +
                      " thread: %s, time: %s%n",
              Thread.currentThread().getName(),
              LocalTime.now());
  }
}

The main class

The configuration class should specify what property file we want to load via @PropertySource

@ComponentScan
@EnableScheduling
@Configuration
@PropertySource("classpath:scheduling.properties")
public class ScheduledExample {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
      AnnotationConfigApplicationContext context =
              new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(
                      ScheduledExample.class);

  }
}

Output

Running scheduled task2  thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:01.292489300
Running scheduled task1 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:01.292489300
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:03.286634600
Running scheduled task3 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:04.002911300
Running scheduled task1 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:04.301844700
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:05.297963200
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:07.301290700
Running scheduled task1 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:07.317009300
Running scheduled task3 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:08.016077700
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:09.293244200
Running scheduled task1 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:10.333258500
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:11.297501200
Running scheduled task3 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:12.001694800
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:13.295883800
Running scheduled task1 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:13.342918600
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:15.290727300
Running scheduled task3 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:16.009899100
Running scheduled task1 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:16.355963
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:17.286473100
Running scheduled task2 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:19.296747700
Running scheduled task1 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:19.359342200
Running scheduled task3 thread: pool-1-thread-1, time: 16:09:20.013199900
......................

Example Project

Dependencies and Technologies Used:

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