Question

I have a simple quartz trigger running in Spring 2.5.6-SEC01.

Trigger definition looks like this:

<bean id="AdvicesCronTrigger" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.CronTriggerBean">
    <property name="jobDetail" ref="AdvicesQuartzJob"/>
    <property name="cronExpression" value="0 20/15 * * * ?"/>
</bean>

This is my scheduler factory:

<bean class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean">
    <property name="triggers">
        <list>
        <ref bean="AdvicesCronTrigger"/>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

I’ve read this documentation about firing CRON triggers from Quartz. This is an excerpt:

CronTrigger Example 1 – an expression
to create a trigger that simply fires
every 5 minutes

"0 0/5 * * * ?"

Today I fired my program at 9:40. This is my execution output:

Edit: Bobby is right in his appreciation. I’ve updatted my execution log:

2010-02-11 09:50:00,000 INFO – START

2010-02-11 10:20:00,000 INFO – START

2010-02-11 10:35:00,000 INFO – START

2010-02-11 10:50:00,000 INFO – START

2010-02-11 11:20:00,000 INFO – START

2010-02-11 11:35:00,000 INFO – START

I expected that this trigger will be fired at

9:50

10:05

10:20

10:35

…

How to accomplish this? Which CRON expression use?

Answer 1

The 20/15 part of the cron expression means every 15 minutes after the 20’th minute of the hour. This means that it will always start at the 20’th minute.

I have never tested it but maybe an expression like this one would be what you are searching for :
0 */15 * * * ?