Question

I’ve declared the following bean in my Spring config

<bean id='templateCacheClearingTask' class='org.springframework.scheduling.timer.ScheduledTimerTask'>     <property name='delay' value='5000' />     <property name='period' value='5000' />      <property name='timerTask'>         <bean class='org.springframework.scheduling.timer.MethodInvokingTimerTaskFactoryBean'>             <property name='targetObject' ref='templateMailService' />             <property name='targetMethod' value='clearCache' />         </bean>     </property> </bean> 

This should cause the clearCache() method of the templateMailService bean to be invoked every 5000ms, but nothing appears to be happening. Am I missing something?

Cheers, Don

Answer 1

I think you need:

<bean id='timerFactory' class='org.springframework.scheduling.timer.TimerFactoryBean'>   <property name='scheduledTimerTasks'>     <list>       <ref bean='templateCacheClearingTask'/>     </list>   </property> </bean> 

In addition to what you already have.