Spring @Scheduled task runs twice

Question

I am creating an @Scheduled task to run every 5 seconds. As has been a problem in other questions, my task is running twice!

I have looked at other ques

Answer 1

I believe this is caused by same config file being loaded twice in your web.xml

    servlet
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet

    contextConfigLocation
    /WEB-INF/spring_config.xml 
    
    1



    contextConfigLocation
    /WEB-INF/spring_config.xml 

EDIT To fix it:

Create another file servlet-servlet.xml (this will be picked up by the ServletDispatcher config by default since it matches the file by servlet name) The file will contain this:

Modify the original file (spring-config.xml):

Modify your web xml servlet config to following:

    servlet
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    1