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In my previous post, I discussed on CompletableFuture provided by Java concurrency API in JDK 8 onwards. In this article, I want to discuss on using CompletableFuture in a Spring Boot application. 🎯 ThreadPoolTaskExecutor in Spring Boot Spring offers ThreadPoolTaskExecutor as a Java bean which is an abstraction of ThreadPoolExecutor of Java concurrency API. It has key configuration values which you can configure for your application. corePoolSize: It is the minimum number of workers which Spring will keep alive without getting timed out....

Java 8 introduced CompletableFuture as part of it’s concurrency API. This is very helpful when we want to nest operations around asynchronous computations, using the native Java API only. Prior to introducing CompletableFuture, we had Future which provided asynchronous callbacks. But there were few problems associated with Future. CompletableFuture addresses them well. Let’s start with understanding what were the issues with Future, that paved the way for CompletableFuture. 🎯 Drawbacks with Future We cannot manually complete the Future object Lack of proper Exception Handling options available We cannot chain multiple Future objects together In the below example, I am creating a simple Future, and trying to get the result from it....

In one of my previous post on this website, I had discussed about Reactive Programming, and how we can implement that in Java using RxJava. In this post, I will be discussing on building a Reactive Spring Boot Application. The application that I will build is going to be a very simple Restful API, which will have two endpoints. One endpoint will fetch the data synchronously. Another endpoint will fetch the same data asynchronously....

🎯 What is RxJava? The official documentation defines it as: It is a Java VM implementation of Reactive Extensions. Reactive Extensions is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences. In simpler terms, RxJava incorporates Reactive Programming paradigm in Java, and helps you consume data in motion, asynchronously. You don’t need to scan through the data in motion(pull based blocking calls), in fact the each data element in the motion will come to you(push based non-blocking calls)....