[alex_smart]

> you did start this with writing your own

I really did not. I only said that if you were to create your own cronService, you can reuse it by creating your library rather than copy pasting code (which is obviously insane).

> which is about as insane as writing your own database driver

No, it is not. Spring Boot’s support for async jobs and scheduled jobs is lacking. A lot of people roll their own. Including yours truly.

It is also much easier than writing a database driver so there is that.

[bdangubic]

Spring Boot’s support for async jobs and scheduled jobs is lacking.

Can you elaborate? What exactly is lacking and what version of Spring are you using?!

[alex_smart]

Compare with the functionality offered by async job systems of other full stack frameworks - eg django with celery and rails with solid-queue. It’s not even close.

I am on the latest version of Spring Boot.

[bdangubic]

I am not saying there aren't more robust scheduling libraries, people still use Quartz a lot in the Java ecosystem - was just wondering what specifically are you up against that you cannot solve with Spring's scheduling?