Spring Request scope vs java thread-local

Question

In high volume (~50,000 requests per second) java web-app I\'m using ThreadLocal to execute a task which should be executed per request scope.

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Answer 1

The Spring solution will cost more but will make for cleaner code IMO. There are a lot of steps involved in fetching, creating, initializing, and storing a bean. However you won't have to think about clearing the request scoped bean as you would the ThreadLocal. It will be collected when the corresponding ServletRequest is cleaned up.