Added push messages using the @Scheduled annotation.

spring-websockets/pom.xml

@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-websocket</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.github.javafaker</groupId>
+            <artifactId>javafaker</artifactId>
+            <version>1.0.2</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
             <artifactId>gson</artifactId>

spring-websockets/src/main/java/com/baeldung/SpringBootApp.java

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ package com.baeldung;
 import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
 import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
+import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.EnableScheduling;
 
 @SpringBootApplication
+@EnableScheduling
 public class SpringBootApp extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         SpringApplication.run(SpringBootApp.class, args);

spring-websockets/src/main/java/com/baeldung/websockets/ScheduledPushMessages.java

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package com.baeldung.websockets;
+
+
+import com.github.javafaker.Faker;
+import org.springframework.messaging.simp.SimpMessagingTemplate;
+import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+
+import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+@Controller
+public class ScheduledPushMessages {
+
+    private final SimpMessagingTemplate simpMessagingTemplate;
+    
+    private final Faker faker;
+    
+    public ScheduledPushMessages(SimpMessagingTemplate simpMessagingTemplate) {
+        this.simpMessagingTemplate = simpMessagingTemplate;
+        faker = new Faker();
+    }
+
+    @Scheduled(fixedRate = 5000)
+    public void sendMessage() {
+        final String time = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm").format(new Date());
+        simpMessagingTemplate.convertAndSend("/topic/messages", 
+            new OutputMessage("Chuck Norris", faker.chuckNorris().fact(), time));
+    }
+    
+}