How to parameterize @Scheduled(fixedDelay) with Spring 3.0 expression language?

Question

When using the Spring 3.0 capability to annotate a scheduled task, I would like to set the fixedDelay as parameter from my configuration file, instead of hard-w

Answer 1

I guess the @Scheduled annotation is out of question. So maybe a solution for you would be to use task-scheduled XML configuration. Let's consider this example (copied from Spring doc):

... or if the cast from String to Long didn't work, something like this would:

Again, I haven't tried any of these setups, but I hope it might help you a bit.