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scheduleAtFixedRate and scheduleWithFixedDelay

scheduleAtFixedRate and scheduleWithFixedDelay

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scheduleAtFixedRate and scheduleWithFixedDelay

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- [Teacher] Let's look at the other two flavors of the method that we have. Schedule With Fixed Delay, and shedule At Fixed Rate. Let's go back to the IDE and I'm going to come in this previous scheduled call that we did. And instead, I'm going to say, service.scheduleAtFixedRate. Okay, It is going to demand from you the runnable instance so, let's say cleaning scheduler, then, an initial delay that will be five seconds, a long period, let's say that four seconds and of course, the time unit is seconds that we want. Now, please understand that scheduling jobs generally occur in days, okay, but right now, for the demonstration purposes, I'm keeping the time unit as seconds. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to show you how it is scheduled and how the run happens. Okay. There's one more thing that I have to do, since I'm scheduling this job, I have to run it periodically and I'm going to show you at least two runs or three runs of this method call. And in order to do that, I'll have to go…

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