How to Run Background Jobs in Spring Boot 4 with JobRunr (Full Tutorial)
Learn how to implement persistent background processing in your Spring Boot applications. In this tutorial, we move beyond basic cron jobs and implement a job scheduler that guarantees execution.
Using a banking application example, I will walk you through the three core types of jobs every Java developer needs to master: fire-and-forget jobs, scheduled jobs, and recurring jobs.
Topics covered:
Setting up JobRunr in Spring Boot
The enqueue method for immediate tasks
The schedule method for future tasks
The recurring method for repeated tasks
Monitoring your queues in the dashboard