Running each Spring Scheduler in its own thread

Question

I have multiple components with @Scheduled annotations, and I see that Spring only starts one at a time, even if they are scheduled to run on the same time.

Answer 1

You're right - by default scheduler uses a thread pool with size 1, so every task is being processed sequentially. You can it by configuring TaskScheduler bean with desired pool size. Consider following example:

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.scheduling.TaskScheduler;
import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.EnableScheduling;
import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;
import org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskScheduler;

import java.util.Date;

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableScheduling
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }

    @Bean
    public TaskScheduler taskScheduler() {
        final ThreadPoolTaskScheduler scheduler = new ThreadPoolTaskScheduler();
        scheduler.setPoolSize(10);
        return scheduler;
    }


    @Scheduled(fixedDelay = 2 * 1000L, initialDelay = 3 * 1000L)
    public void scheduled1() throws InterruptedException {
        System.out.println(new Date() + " " + Thread.currentThread().getName() + ": scheduled1");
        Thread.sleep(1000);
    }

    @Scheduled(fixedDelay = 3 * 1000L, initialDelay = 3 * 1000L)
    public void scheduled2() throws InterruptedException {
        System.out.println(new Date() + " " + Thread.currentThread().getName() + ": scheduled2");
        Thread.sleep(1000);
    }
}

It will run every scheduled task in a separate thread, for example:

Tue Jul 18 20:21:50 CEST 2017 taskScheduler-1: scheduled2
Tue Jul 18 20:21:50 CEST 2017 taskScheduler-2: scheduled1
Tue Jul 18 20:21:53 CEST 2017 taskScheduler-1: scheduled1
Tue Jul 18 20:21:54 CEST 2017 taskScheduler-3: scheduled2
Tue Jul 18 20:21:56 CEST 2017 taskScheduler-2: scheduled1
Tue Jul 18 20:21:58 CEST 2017 taskScheduler-4: scheduled2
Tue Jul 18 20:21:59 CEST 2017 taskScheduler-1: scheduled1