Spring XML equivalent of @EnableAsync

Question

Is there a way to turn on Spring\'s Async configuration from XML? All the examples I saw are using programmatic context declaration and use @EnableAsync

Answer 1

In the annotation based approach you have to have @EnableAsync on the Configuration class. Something like as shown below:

@Configuration
@EnableAsync
@ComponentScan(basePackages ="com.spring.sample.demoAsync")
public class SpringAsyncConfig {

}

Then you create a component class to have a function that is called Asynchronously. Something like as shown below:

@Component
public class AsyncClass {

    @Async
    public Future asyncMethod() {
        System.out.println("Executing Thread Async:" +Thread.currentThread().getName());
        return new AsyncResult(Thread.currentThread().getName());
    }
}

To have the xml equivalent of this approach, you can create a bean in the applicationContext.xml file as shown below:

To call the function asyncMethod() in your flow, you can refer AsyncClass bean from any other bean or service. Below is something that I tried to stitch the flow:

It's not necessary to follow this step but is an alternative approach.

In my applicationContext.xml file, I also imported the task schema by using:

xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-3.0.xsd"

and then mentioning the executor as a task in the same file:

Now my AsyncClass looks like this without @component annotation.

public class AsyncClass {

    @Async("myexecutor")
    public Future asyncMethod() {
        System.out.println("Executing Thread Async:" +Thread.currentThread().getName());
        return new AsyncResult(Thread.currentThread().getName());
    }
}

and then finally invoking the asyncMethod() asynchronously from the CallingBeanClass.