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Executing Periodic Tasks with the Scheduled Annotation

Spring provides the @Scheduled annotation to run methods at fixed intervals or cron expressions without manually managing thread timers. To enable this feature in your application, you must include @EnableScheduling on a configuration class.

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@Component
public class ReportCleanupTask {
 
    @Scheduled(fixedRate = 60000)
    public void cleanupOldReports() {
        System.out.println("Executing scheduled cleanup task every 60 seconds.");
    }
}

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@Component

Registers this class as a Spring-managed bean so the framework can detect scheduled methods.

@Scheduled(fixedRate = 60000)

Configures the method to execute repeatedly every 60,000 milliseconds (60 seconds).

public void cleanupOldReports() {

Defines the task method, which must have a void return type and accept no parameters.

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