How deeply does Spring in Action, Sixth Edition cover asynchronous programming?

Explains indirection, brokers, templates, consumers, and listener annotations without detailing message-processing internals.

Asynchronous programming

As explained in Spring in Action, Sixth Edition

Asynchronous communication is interapplication communication in which the sender can continue processing without waiting for the recipient's response.

Asynchronous programming lets one application send a message without waiting for the recipient to respond. A broker holds and relays the message, allowing the sender to continue while the consumer reads it later. This indirection reduces coupling and can improve scalability compared with synchronous request-response communication. section 9.0 section 14.0

Sending an order to a kitchen

A Taco Cloud website sends an order to a separate kitchen application. The website does not wait for the kitchen to finish preparing the tacos; it places the message with a broker so the kitchen can consume it when ready. The same pattern resembles sending an email before leaving for vacation: delivery and reading happen later, while the sender continues. section 9.0

Spring supports asynchronous messaging through several broker and consumption styles:

JMS provides a common Java API for message brokers; Spring exposes it through JmsTemplate and message-driven POJOs. section 9.1
RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka provide alternative messaging platforms supported by Spring template clients. section 9.4
Consumers can pull messages with template clients or receive pushed messages through @JmsListener, @RabbitListener, or @KafkaListener methods. section 9.4

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Related concepts

queueuses · A queue is an ordered collection that holds items for retrieval or processing, typically removing them in the order they were added.
background processinguses · Background processing is the execution of work independently of the immediate interactive or request-handling flow, so foreground activity need not wait for its completion.
synchronous callcontrasts with · A synchronous call is an invocation in which the caller waits for the operation to complete or return a response before continuing.
concurrencyuses · Concurrency is the structuring or execution of multiple computational activities so their progress overlaps in time, whether or not they run simultaneously.
blockingcontrasts with · Execution behavior in which an operation prevents its calling execution flow from progressing until required work, an event, a resource, or a condition is ready or complete.
event-driven architectureused by · Event-driven architecture is a software architectural style in which components communicate or initiate processing by producing and responding to events.

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