Scheduled Tasks in JIRA

Ever thought of running scheduled tasks within JIRA? Why do we need scheduled tasks when we have the JIRA Services? We have seen how to write a service in one of the previous posts. But in spite of all its advantages discussed there, services have a disadvantage. It always starts when JIRA is restarted and runs at regular intervals after that. So if you have a service that do some heavy memory intensive operation and if you restart JIRA in the middle of the day, you will suddenly find your instance's performance compromised! If it is scheduled to run every 24 hours, you will find the same service running in the middle of the day from then on until the next restart.

Scheduled tasks in JIRA are a good way to make sure all such operations happen at quite times, midnight for example. In this post we will write a real simple scheduled tasks and see how easy that can be!

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