I have a method that I wish to run once using Spring and it needs to run on a given java.util.Date (or LocalDateTime alternatively). I am planning to persist all of the dates that the method should execute to a data source. It should run asynchronously.
One way is to check the DB every day for a date and execute the method if the date has passed and hasn't been executed. Is there a better way?
I know that Spring offers a ThreadPoolTaskScheduler and a ThreadPoolTaskExecutor. I am looking at ScheduledFuture schedule(Runnable task, Date startTime) from the TaskScheduler interface. Would I need to create a Runnable Spring managed bean just to call my method? Or is there a simpler annotation that would do this? An example would really help.