Alex Panchenko opened SPR-17019 and commented
In some cases an initialization operation could take some time and it would be better executing it in background.
In crontab it's possible to have tasks scheduled @reboot, so I think a similar approach would work the best.
Referenced from: pull request https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/pull/1875
Comment From: sbrannen
- Superseded by #1875