The Techno Journals

In this tutorial we will see how to create an asynchronous REST service endpoint using Spring boot application. Asynchronous service works in a way that it will not block the client request and do the processing in separate thread. When work is complete the response returned to the client so our service will be able to handle more client requests at the same time, compare to synchronous processing model. Let's understand how it is working in synchronous mode. In such server/client application at server side it has a pool of threads which are serving the request. If a request received by a thread then it will be blocked until it send the response back to client. In this case if processing doesn't take much time it will be able to process it quickly and accept other client requests but there could be one situation when all threads are busy and not able to accept the new client requests. To overcome of such problems, asynchronous processing model introduced for REST service...