DEV Community: silenzzz

I built a Spring Boot starter that exposes a REST API for your @Scheduled methods

silenzzz — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:13:08 +0000

If you've ever needed to manually trigger a @Scheduled method in production without redeploying or adding one-off
endpoints, this might be useful.

The problem

I kept running into the same situation: a scheduled job needs to run right now — data sync is behind, a report needs
regenerating, whatever. The options were never great:

Add a temporary REST endpoint, deploy, trigger, remove, redeploy
SSH into the server and fiddle with the database
Just wait for the next scheduled run

What I built

cronctl-spring-boot-starter — add the dependency, and every @Scheduled method in your application gets automatically
registered and exposed via REST:

GET /api/cronctl/tasks → list all registered tasks with their schedule config

POST /api/cronctl/execute/{id} → manually trigger a task, get execution result

Autoconfiguration handles everything. No annotations, no code changes to existing beans:

@Component
public class MyScheduler {

    @Scheduled(cron = "0 0 3 * * *")
    public void generateReport() {
        // this is now triggerable via POST /api/cronctl/execute/{id}                                                    
    }
}

Swagger UI is included and shows the cronctl group alongside your existing API docs.

Security is configurable — by default, everything is public for easy local development, you can require authentication per endpoint group.

Stack: Spring Boot 4.x, Java 21, springdoc-openapi

GitHub: https://github.com/syntezis-ru/cronctl

Would love feedback — especially on the security configuration approach; I'm not sure if I've got the defaults right for a library

Telegram bot with Camel & Spring boot

silenzzz — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 21:45:17 +0000

This project serves as an example of using Apache Camel together with the Spring Boot framework to develop Telegram bots. Apache Camel is a powerful tool for integrating various systems, and Spring Boot simplifies the creation and configuration of Java applications.

https://github.com/silenzzz/spring-camel-tgbot
https://github.com/silenzzz/spring-camel-tgbot
https://github.com/silenzzz/spring-camel-tgbot

Java library for RuTracker

silenzzz — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 23:08:37 +0000

RuTracker4j Library

Written in Java.
RuTracker4j simplifies the process of accessing RuTracker data, torrent search, obtain information about specific topics, etc.

Features:

Torrent Search
Access Topic, Category, Attach, Torrent links, etc. Details

Explore on GitHub: RuTracker4j Repository

I’m open to feedback and suggestions for enhancing functionality. Thanks.