Question

25.5.3 The Element

To enable both @Scheduled and @Async annotations, simply include the
‘annotation-driven’ element from the task namespace in your
configuration.

<task:annotation-driven executor="myExecutor" scheduler="myScheduler"/>

<task:executor id="myExecutor" pool-size="5"/>

<task:scheduler id="myScheduler" pool-size="10"/>

Notice that an executor reference is provided for handling those tasks
that correspond to methods with the @Async annotation, and the
scheduler reference is provided for managing those methods annotated
with @Scheduled.

Is there anyway to do this without XML?

Answer 1

This is possible with the newly-released Spring 3.1, but not 3.0 – See @EnableAsync and @EnableScheduling.