We ended up using the JDK timer, since
One nice thing about the JDK timer, even if task is scheduled at a certain time, it would not execute if an existing task is running. Also its thread-safe, since only one task is executing at a time.
More information at -
Task Scheduling – Spring Framework Documentation
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