We are running a Spring 3.0.x web application (.war) with a nightly @Scheduled job in a clustered WebLogic 10.3.4 environment. However, as the application is deployed to each node (using the deployment wizard in the AdminServer’s web console), the job is started on each node every night thus running multiple times concurrently.
How can we prevent this from happening?
I know that libraries like Quartz allow coordinating jobs inside clustered environment by means of a database lock table or I could even implement something like this myself. But since this seems to be a fairly common scenario I wonder if Spring does not already come with an option how to easily circumvent this problem without having to add new libraries to my project or putting in manual workarounds.
- We are not able to upgrade to Spring 3.1 with configuration profiles, as mentioned here
Please let me know if there are any open questions. I also asked this question on the Spring Community forums. Thanks a lot for your help.
We are implementing our own synchronization logic using a shared lock table inside the application database. This allows all cluster nodes to check if a job is already running before actually starting it itself.