Disable a Spring Scheduler Task via Property

Question

I am scheduling a task using Spring Framework and have a cron value set through an environment specific property file. I am looking for a way to disable this task through a property so that only certain environments run this task.

<task:scheduled-tasks>
<task:scheduled ref="theClass" method="theMethod" cron="${scheduler.cron}" /> 
</task:scheduled-tasks>

<bean id="theClass" class="com.test.TheClass" scope="prototype" />

Answer 1

You can use Spring environment profiles (example using annotations, example using xml), so you can have different profiles for development, testing, production, etc. And these are set via properties (spring.profiles.active).