Spring Async issue when upgrading from 4.2.0.RC3 to 4.2.0.RELEASE

Question

I've a web application using the spring(4.2.x) artifacts spring-webmvc, spring-messaging, spring-websocket

I've the below @Enable* annotations in my spring config java class

@EnableWebMvc
@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker
@EnableAsync
@EnableMBeanExport

WebSocket is used for broadcasting messages to browser clients. And there are few async methods annotated with @Async

The application was working fine with spring version 4.2.0.RC3. But when I changed it to the GA release 4.2.0.RELEASE, I get the below exception on startup. If I remove @EnableAsync it works fine, but I need the async functionality.

org.springframework.beans.factory.NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.core.task.TaskExecutor] is defined: expected single matching bean but found 4: clientOutboundChannelExecutor,messageBrokerTaskScheduler,clientInboundChannelExecutor,brokerChannelExecutor
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBean(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:366)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBean(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:332)
    org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.setBeanFactory(AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:128)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeAwareMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1597)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1565)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:305)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:301)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:201)
    org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.registerBeanPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:228)
    org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerBeanPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:682)
    org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:522)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:667)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:539)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:493)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)

Answer 1

Add the bean at Spring application context configuration

@Configuration
@EnableAsync
public class AppContext extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport {
    @Bean
    public Executor taskExecutor() {
        return new SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor();
    }
}

I suggest that you refer to linuxism.tistory.com/2076

If you declare your executors in XML, then you can create a class and name it TaskExecutor. Then when Spring tries to find the TaskExecutor bean, it will find this one.

@Component
public class TaskExecutor extends SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor {
}