I'm using **spring 4.3.7.RELEASE** to set up the server sent events. And used `@scheduled` annotation to send messages every 2 seconds.
Here is the controller. 

```
@Controller
public class MySSEController {
    private final SseEmitter sseEmitter = new SseEmitter();
    private int counter = 0;

    @RequestMapping("/ssestream")
    public SseEmitter getRealTimeMessageAction() throws IOException {

        sseEmitter.send("MessageCounter : " + counter);
        return sseEmitter;
    }

    @Scheduled(fixedDelay = 2*1000)
    public void scheduledMsgEmitter() throws IOException
    {
        if(null != sseEmitter) {
            sseEmitter.send("MessageCounter : " + ++counter);
        }
    }

}

```

I'm running this on Tomcat 9 directly from eclipse. The application starts and send messages to the browser at every 2 soconds. But after some time it stops sending messages and I see the below exception in eclipse console.

```
Mar 16, 2017 6:57:34 PM org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver handleAsyncRequestTimeoutException
SEVERE: Async timeout for GET [/streaming-web/stream/ssestream]
Mar 16, 2017 6:57:35 PM org.springframework.scheduling.support.TaskUtils$LoggingErrorHandler handleError
SEVERE: Unexpected error occurred in scheduled task.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ResponseBodyEmitter is already set complete
    at org.springframework.util.Assert.state(Assert.java:70)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ResponseBodyEmitter.send(ResponseBodyEmitter.java:158)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.SseEmitter.send(SseEmitter.java:126)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.SseEmitter.send(SseEmitter.java:107)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.SseEmitter.send(SseEmitter.java:89)
    at com.mycomp.test.controllers.MySSEController.scheduledMsgEmitter(MySSEController.java:25)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor31.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at org.springframework.scheduling.support.ScheduledMethodRunnable.run(ScheduledMethodRunnable.java:65)
    at org.springframework.scheduling.support.DelegatingErrorHandlingRunnable.run(DelegatingErrorHandlingRunnable.java:54)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:308)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:294)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

```

Am I missing something? Please help me to resolve this problem.