Is this possible in spring using annotation/what's the easiest way?

[Matt Taylor]

is it possible in spring using just an annotation to execute a method every period (let's say every 7am and 7pm) but will skip to execute the method on the designated time if the initial method is still not finished executing?

For example, at 7am, methodA will execute. On 7pm, if the methodA that was executed on 7am is still not finished, it will not yet execute another one and wait for next 7am. But if finished, will begin executing methodA again.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Matt,
On #Scheduled, fixedDelay ensures that two aren't running at once. But it wouldn't run it at 7am/7pm after the first time so that doesn't help.

If I had to do this, I'd have a boolean state value. I'm curious if there is a better way so look forward to watching this thread for replies.