In a previous post I looked at how to use quartz to trigger events in mule – we had a cron expression which dictated when an event occurred. This post explains how to externalise this cron expression to a properties file.
We create a properties file (application.properties) with the cron expression. This properties file should be on the classpath.
cron.expression=0 24 15 * * ?
First we reference our properties file in the mule config:
<environment-properties> <file-properties location="application.properties"/> </environment-properties>
We can then use the same syntax as Spring to acces the parameter in the properties file:
<endpoint name="quartz.in" address="quartz:/myService">
<properties>
<property name="cronExpression" value="${cron.expression}" />
</properties>
</endpoint>
This example shows how to externalise configuration properties to a properties file.
