How to conditionally enable or disable scheduled jobs in Spring?

Question

I am defining scheduled jobs with cron style patterns in Spring, using the @Scheduled annotation.

The cron pattern is stored in a config properties file

Answer 1

Spring Boot provides @ConditionalOnProperty, which would be perfect if you were using Spring Boot. This annotation is a specialization of @Conditional, introduced with Spring 4.0.0.

Assuming you're just using "regular" spring and not Spring Boot, you could create your own Condition implementation for use with @Conditional that would mimic Spring Boot's @ConditionalOnProperty.