How to start cron job after server startup automatically

In some cases, it is required to run cron job immediately after server starts


We have a property in hybris to start all cron jobs after server startup but to make a specific cron job to run after server startup, we don’t have any such property

Let’s see how can we achieve the same


We need to implement ServletContextListner interface and write the code to execute specific cron job on server start up

Create a java class by implementing ServletContextListner interface

  1. Package com.kb.listener;
  2. public class CronjobContextListener implements ServletContextListener {
  3.  
  4.   @Override
  5.   public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
  6.     //Code can be written to execute before server shuts down.  
  7.   }
  8.  
  9.   @Override
  10.   public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
  11.     // Write a code that needs to be executed just after the server starts
  12. ProductsRemovalCronJobModel  productsRemovalCronJobModel =modelService.create(ProductsRemovalCronJobModel.class);
  13.  
  14. // assign Job to CronJob
  15. ServicelayerJobModel  servicelayerJobModel = modelService.create(ServicelayerJobModel.class);
  16. servicelayerJobModel.setActive(true);
  17. servicelayerJobModel.setSpringId("productsRemovalJob");
  18. productsRemovalCronJobModel.setJob(servicelayerJobModel);
  19. modelService.save(productsRemovalCronJobModel);
  20. cronJobService.performCronJob(productsRemovalCronJobModel);
  21.   }
  22. }
Package com.kb.listener;
public class CronjobContextListener implements ServletContextListener {

  @Override
  public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
    //Code can be written to execute before server shuts down.   
  }

  @Override
  public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
    // Write a code that needs to be executed just after the server starts
ProductsRemovalCronJobModel  productsRemovalCronJobModel =modelService.create(ProductsRemovalCronJobModel.class);

// assign Job to CronJob
ServicelayerJobModel  servicelayerJobModel = modelService.create(ServicelayerJobModel.class);
servicelayerJobModel.setActive(true);
servicelayerJobModel.setSpringId("productsRemovalJob");
productsRemovalCronJobModel.setJob(servicelayerJobModel);
modelService.save(productsRemovalCronJobModel);
cronJobService.performCronJob(productsRemovalCronJobModel);
  }
}


configure above context listener class in storefront extension’s web.xml as below

  1. <listener>
  2.     <listener-class>
  3.         com.kb.listener.CronjobContextListener
  4. </listener-class>
  5. </listener>
<listener>
    <listener-class>
        com.kb.listener.CronjobContextListener
</listener-class>
</listener>


Now whenever server starts, immediately above cron job executes.

Note :
Please check CronJob article for how to create cron job


We can also override contextInitialized() method inside existing hybris context listener HybrisStorefrontContextLoaderListener instead of creating new one but we should not forget calling super.contextInitialized(event);

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