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Learn more about Teams public class QuoteController { @Autowired public SimpMessageSendingOperations messagingTemplate; @Scheduled(fixedDelay=5000) public String sendPrice() { messagingTemplate.convertAndSend("/topic/quote", "message from scheduler"); @SendTo works when the request is coming from the browser and interpreted by spring framework. And convertAndSend is the api you can use it in any environment. Because you are using it in Thread, this is not an endpoint in spring and value returned by the sendPrice() method will not be processed by spring. – Vikram Singh Nov 9, 2018 at 4:55 I think @VikramSingh is sort of right, though I disagree with the reason: @SendTo works when the method being annotated is involved in messaging interactions - Spring invokes it in response to a message it received, and takes the @SendTo annotation as an indication that a reply message is to be generated. Here, sendPrice() is invoked by Spring, but not in a messaging context, so Spring has no reason to think that a reply is expected - so the @SendTo annotation is ignored... – moilejter Nov 9, 2018 at 5:02 Yes I think when The method is annotated with @SendTo spring treat it as an messaging endpoint and when it receives a message from client it internally call convertAndSend method to send message to client. But In case of @Scheduled annotation it will be invoked sometime latter without receiving message from client. Because there is no client is involved it doesn't make sense to send message to client which might be not available at the time of the invocation. – Vikram Singh Nov 9, 2018 at 5:10

We should use @SendTo annotation only by functions that called by websocket, it's mean functions annocated with @MessageMapping .

If you want to send message to queue in other way you should use messagingTemplate.convertAndSend .

Example for @SendTo :

@MessageMapping("/hello") // from websocket
@SendTo("/topic/bla")
public String foo1(String message) {
    return message;
Example for .convertAndSend:
@Autowired
private SimpMessagingTemplate template;
@GetMapping("/{msg}") //from GET request
public void foo2(@PathVariable String msg) {
    template.convertAndSend("/topic/bla", msg);
        
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