Run once on application startup with a scheduler (JAVA). See https://stackoverflow.com/a/31304767/1678525. If you truely need to run something only once, this is a better way: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17037758/1678525

runOnce.java

@EnableScheduling
@Component
public class ScheduledTasks {

private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ScheduledTasks.class);

private static boolean needToRunStartupMethod = true;

    @Scheduled(fixedRate = 3600000)
    public void keepAlive() {
        //log "alive" every hour for sanity checks
        LOGGER.debug("alive");
        if (needToRunStartupMethod) {
            runOnceOnlyOnStartup();
            needToRunStartupMethod = false;
        }
    }

    public void runOnceOnlyOnStartup() {
        LOGGER.debug("running startup job");
    }

}