[[spring-integration]]
= Integration

[partintro]
--
This part of the reference documentation covers the Spring Framework's integration with
a number of Java EE (and related) technologies.

* <<remoting>>
* <<ejb>>
* <<jms>>
* <<jmx>>
* <<cci>>
* <<mail>>
* <<scheduling>>
* <<dynamic-language>>
* <<cache>>
--


[[remoting]]
== Remoting and web services using Spring


[[remoting-introduction]]
=== Introduction
Spring features integration classes for remoting support using various technologies. The
remoting support eases the development of remote-enabled services, implemented by your
usual (Spring) POJOs. Currently, Spring supports the following remoting technologies:

* __Remote Method Invocation (RMI)__. Through the use of the `RmiProxyFactoryBean` and
  the `RmiServiceExporter` Spring supports both traditional RMI (with `java.rmi.Remote`
  interfaces and `java.rmi.RemoteException`) and transparent remoting via RMI invokers
  (with any Java interface).
* __Spring's HTTP invoker__. Spring provides a special remoting strategy which allows
  for Java serialization via HTTP, supporting any Java interface (just like the RMI
  invoker). The corresponding support classes are `HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean` and
  `HttpInvokerServiceExporter`.
* __Hessian__. By using Spring's `HessianProxyFactoryBean` and the
  `HessianServiceExporter` you can transparently expose your services using the
  lightweight binary HTTP-based protocol provided by Caucho.
* __Burlap__. Burlap is Caucho's XML-based alternative to Hessian. Spring provides
  support classes such as `BurlapProxyFactoryBean` and `BurlapServiceExporter`.
* __JAX-WS__. Spring provides remoting support for web services via JAX-WS (the
  successor of JAX-RPC, as introduced in Java EE 5 and Java 6).
* __JMS__. Remoting using JMS as the underlying protocol is supported via the
  `JmsInvokerServiceExporter` and `JmsInvokerProxyFactoryBean` classes.
* __AMQP__. Remoting using AMQP as the underlying protocol is supported by the Spring
  AMQP project.

While discussing the remoting capabilities of Spring, we'll use the following domain
model and corresponding services:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class Account implements Serializable{

		private String name;

		public String getName(){
			return name;
		}

		public void setName(String name) {
			this.name = name;
		}

	}
----

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface AccountService {

		public void insertAccount(Account account);

		public List<Account> getAccounts(String name);

	}
----

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	// the implementation doing nothing at the moment
	public class AccountServiceImpl implements AccountService {

		public void insertAccount(Account acc) {
			// do something...
		}

		public List<Account> getAccounts(String name) {
			// do something...
		}

	}
----

We will start exposing the service to a remote client by using RMI and talk a bit about
the drawbacks of using RMI. We'll then continue to show an example using Hessian as the
protocol.




[[remoting-rmi]]
=== Exposing services using RMI
Using Spring's support for RMI, you can transparently expose your services through the
RMI infrastructure. After having this set up, you basically have a configuration similar
to remote EJBs, except for the fact that there is no standard support for security
context propagation or remote transaction propagation. Spring does provide hooks for
such additional invocation context when using the RMI invoker, so you can for example
plug in security frameworks or custom security credentials here.



[[remoting-rmi-server]]
==== Exporting the service using the RmiServiceExporter

Using the `RmiServiceExporter`, we can expose the interface of our AccountService object
as RMI object. The interface can be accessed by using `RmiProxyFactoryBean`, or via
plain RMI in case of a traditional RMI service. The `RmiServiceExporter` explicitly
supports the exposing of any non-RMI services via RMI invokers.

Of course, we first have to set up our service in the Spring container:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="accountService" class="example.AccountServiceImpl">
		<!-- any additional properties, maybe a DAO? -->
	</bean>
----

Next we'll have to expose our service using the `RmiServiceExporter`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter">
		<!-- does not necessarily have to be the same name as the bean to be exported -->
		<property name="serviceName" value="AccountService"/>
		<property name="service" ref="accountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
		<!-- defaults to 1099 -->
		<property name="registryPort" value="1199"/>
	</bean>
----

As you can see, we're overriding the port for the RMI registry. Often, your application
server also maintains an RMI registry and it is wise to not interfere with that one.
Furthermore, the service name is used to bind the service under. So right now, the
service will be bound at `'rmi://HOST:1199/AccountService'`. We'll use the URL later on
to link in the service at the client side.

[NOTE]
====
The `servicePort` property has been omitted (it defaults to 0). This means that an
anonymous port will be used to communicate with the service.
====



[[remoting-rmi-client]]
==== Linking in the service at the client
Our client is a simple object using the `AccountService` to manage accounts:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class SimpleObject {

		private AccountService accountService;

		public void setAccountService(AccountService accountService) {
			this.accountService = accountService;
		}

		// additional methods using the accountService

	}
----

To link in the service on the client, we'll create a separate Spring container,
containing the simple object and the service linking configuration bits:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean class="example.SimpleObject">
		<property name="accountService" ref="accountService"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="accountService" class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiProxyFactoryBean">
		<property name="serviceUrl" value="rmi://HOST:1199/AccountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
	</bean>
----

That's all we need to do to support the remote account service on the client. Spring
will transparently create an invoker and remotely enable the account service through the
`RmiServiceExporter`. At the client we're linking it in using the `RmiProxyFactoryBean`.




[[remoting-caucho-protocols]]
=== Using Hessian or Burlap to remotely call services via HTTP
Hessian offers a binary HTTP-based remoting protocol. It is developed by Caucho and more
information about Hessian itself can be found at http://www.caucho.com[].



[[remoting-caucho-protocols-hessian]]
==== Wiring up the DispatcherServlet for Hessian and co.

Hessian communicates via HTTP and does so using a custom servlet. Using Spring's
`DispatcherServlet` principles, as known from Spring Web MVC usage, you can easily wire
up such a servlet exposing your services. First we'll have to create a new servlet in
your application (this is an excerpt from `'web.xml'`):

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>remoting</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>

	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>remoting</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/remoting/*</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
----

You're probably familiar with Spring's `DispatcherServlet` principles and if so, you
know that now you'll have to create a Spring container configuration resource named
`'remoting-servlet.xml'` (after the name of your servlet) in the `'WEB-INF'` directory.
The application context will be used in the next section.

Alternatively, consider the use of Spring's simpler `HttpRequestHandlerServlet`. This
allows you to embed the remote exporter definitions in your root application context (by
default in `'WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml'`), with individual servlet definitions
pointing to specific exporter beans. Each servlet name needs to match the bean name of
its target exporter in this case.



[[remoting-caucho-protocols-hessian-server]]
==== Exposing your beans by using the HessianServiceExporter

In the newly created application context called `remoting-servlet.xml`, we'll create a
`HessianServiceExporter` exporting your services:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="accountService" class="example.AccountServiceImpl">
		<!-- any additional properties, maybe a DAO? -->
	</bean>

	<bean name="/AccountService" class="org.springframework.remoting.caucho.HessianServiceExporter">
		<property name="service" ref="accountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
	</bean>
----

Now we're ready to link in the service at the client. No explicit handler mapping is
specified, mapping request URLs onto services, so `BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping` will be
used: Hence, the service will be exported at the URL indicated through its bean name
within the containing `DispatcherServlet`'s mapping (as defined above):
`'http://HOST:8080/remoting/AccountService'`.

Alternatively, create a `HessianServiceExporter` in your root application context (e.g.
in `'WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml'`):

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean name="accountExporter" class="org.springframework.remoting.caucho.HessianServiceExporter">
		<property name="service" ref="accountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
	</bean>
----

In the latter case, define a corresponding servlet for this exporter in `'web.xml'`,
with the same end result: The exporter getting mapped to the request path
`/remoting/AccountService`. Note that the servlet name needs to match the bean name of
the target exporter.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>accountExporter</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet</servlet-class>
	</servlet>

	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>accountExporter</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/remoting/AccountService</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
----



[[remoting-caucho-protocols-hessian-client]]
==== Linking in the service on the client
Using the `HessianProxyFactoryBean` we can link in the service at the client. The same
principles apply as with the RMI example. We'll create a separate bean factory or
application context and mention the following beans where the `SimpleObject` is using
the `AccountService` to manage accounts:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean class="example.SimpleObject">
		<property name="accountService" ref="accountService"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="accountService" class="org.springframework.remoting.caucho.HessianProxyFactoryBean">
		<property name="serviceUrl" value="http://remotehost:8080/remoting/AccountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
	</bean>
----



[[remoting-caucho-protocols-burlap]]
==== Using Burlap
We won't discuss Burlap, the XML-based equivalent of Hessian, in detail here, since it
is configured and set up in exactly the same way as the Hessian variant explained above.
Just replace the word `Hessian` with `Burlap` and you're all set to go.



[[remoting-caucho-protocols-security]]
==== Applying HTTP basic authentication to a service exposed through Hessian or Burlap
One of the advantages of Hessian and Burlap is that we can easily apply HTTP basic
authentication, because both protocols are HTTP-based. Your normal HTTP server security
mechanism can easily be applied through using the `web.xml` security features, for
example. Usually, you don't use per-user security credentials here, but rather shared
credentials defined at the `Hessian/BurlapProxyFactoryBean` level (similar to a JDBC
`DataSource`).

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping">
		<property name="interceptors" ref="authorizationInterceptor"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="authorizationInterceptor"
			class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.UserRoleAuthorizationInterceptor">
		<property name="authorizedRoles" value="administrator,operator"/>
	</bean>
----

This is an example where we explicitly mention the `BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping` and set
an interceptor allowing only administrators and operators to call the beans mentioned in
this application context.

[NOTE]
====
Of course, this example doesn't show a flexible kind of security infrastructure. For
more options as far as security is concerned, have a look at the Spring Security project
at http://projects.spring.io/spring-security/[].
====




[[remoting-httpinvoker]]
=== Exposing services using HTTP invokers
As opposed to Burlap and Hessian, which are both lightweight protocols using their own
slim serialization mechanisms, Spring HTTP invokers use the standard Java serialization
mechanism to expose services through HTTP. This has a huge advantage if your arguments
and return types are complex types that cannot be serialized using the serialization
mechanisms Hessian and Burlap use (refer to the next section for more considerations
when choosing a remoting technology).

Under the hood, Spring uses either the standard facilities provided by the JDK or
Apache `HttpComponents` to perform HTTP calls. Use the latter if you need more
advanced and easier-to-use functionality. Refer to
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/[hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/]
for more information.



[[remoting-httpinvoker-server]]
==== Exposing the service object
Setting up the HTTP invoker infrastructure for a service object resembles closely the
way you would do the same using Hessian or Burlap. Just as Hessian support provides the
`HessianServiceExporter`, Spring's HttpInvoker support provides the
`org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerServiceExporter`.

To expose the `AccountService` (mentioned above) within a Spring Web MVC
`DispatcherServlet`, the following configuration needs to be in place in the
dispatcher's application context:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean name="/AccountService" class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerServiceExporter">
		<property name="service" ref="accountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
	</bean>
----

Such an exporter definition will be exposed through the `DispatcherServlet`'s standard
mapping facilities, as explained in the section on Hessian.

Alternatively, create an `HttpInvokerServiceExporter` in your root application context
(e.g. in `'WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml'`):

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean name="accountExporter" class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerServiceExporter">
		<property name="service" ref="accountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
	</bean>
----

In addition, define a corresponding servlet for this exporter in `'web.xml'`, with the
servlet name matching the bean name of the target exporter:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>accountExporter</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet</servlet-class>
	</servlet>

	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>accountExporter</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/remoting/AccountService</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
----

If you are running outside of a servlet container and are using Oracle's Java 6, then you
can use the built-in HTTP server implementation. You can configure the
`SimpleHttpServerFactoryBean` together with a `SimpleHttpInvokerServiceExporter` as is
shown in this example:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean name="accountExporter"
			class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.SimpleHttpInvokerServiceExporter">
		<property name="service" ref="accountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="httpServer"
			class="org.springframework.remoting.support.SimpleHttpServerFactoryBean">
		<property name="contexts">
			<util:map>
				<entry key="/remoting/AccountService" value-ref="accountExporter"/>
			</util:map>
		</property>
		<property name="port" value="8080" />
	</bean>
----



[[remoting-httpinvoker-client]]
==== Linking in the service at the client
Again, linking in the service from the client much resembles the way you would do it
when using Hessian or Burlap. Using a proxy, Spring will be able to translate your calls
to HTTP POST requests to the URL pointing to the exported service.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="httpInvokerProxy" class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean">
		<property name="serviceUrl" value="http://remotehost:8080/remoting/AccountService"/>
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
	</bean>
----

As mentioned before, you can choose what HTTP client you want to use. By default, the
`HttpInvokerProxy` uses the JDK's HTTP functionality, but you can also use the Apache
`HttpComponents` client by setting the `httpInvokerRequestExecutor` property:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<property name="httpInvokerRequestExecutor">
		<bean class="org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpComponentsHttpInvokerRequestExecutor"/>
	</property>
----




[[remoting-web-services]]
=== Web services
Spring provides full support for standard Java web services APIs:

* Exposing web services using JAX-WS
* Accessing web services using JAX-WS

In addition to stock support for JAX-WS in Spring Core, the Spring portfolio also
features http://www.springframework.org/spring-ws[Spring Web Services], a solution for
contract-first, document-driven web services - highly recommended for building modern,
future-proof web services.



[[remoting-web-services-jaxws-export-servlet]]
==== Exposing servlet-based web services using JAX-WS
Spring provides a convenient base class for JAX-WS servlet endpoint implementations -
`SpringBeanAutowiringSupport`. To expose our `AccountService` we extend Spring's
`SpringBeanAutowiringSupport` class and implement our business logic here, usually
delegating the call to the business layer. We'll simply use Spring's `@Autowired`
annotation for expressing such dependencies on Spring-managed beans.

[source,java,indent=0]
----
	/**
	 * JAX-WS compliant AccountService implementation that simply delegates
	 * to the AccountService implementation in the root web application context.
	 *
	 * This wrapper class is necessary because JAX-WS requires working with dedicated
	 * endpoint classes. If an existing service needs to be exported, a wrapper that
	 * extends SpringBeanAutowiringSupport for simple Spring bean autowiring (through
	 * the @Autowired annotation) is the simplest JAX-WS compliant way.
	 *
	 * This is the class registered with the server-side JAX-WS implementation.
	 * In the case of a Java EE 5 server, this would simply be defined as a servlet
	 * in web.xml, with the server detecting that this is a JAX-WS endpoint and reacting
	 * accordingly. The servlet name usually needs to match the specified WS service name.
	 *
	 * The web service engine manages the lifecycle of instances of this class.
	 * Spring bean references will just be wired in here.
	 */
	import org.springframework.web.context.support.SpringBeanAutowiringSupport;

	@WebService(serviceName="AccountService")
	public class AccountServiceEndpoint extends SpringBeanAutowiringSupport {

		@Autowired
		private AccountService biz;

		@WebMethod
		public void insertAccount(Account acc) {
			biz.insertAccount(acc);
		}

		@WebMethod
		public Account[] getAccounts(String name) {
			return biz.getAccounts(name);
		}

	}
----

Our `AccountServiceEndpoint` needs to run in the same web application as the Spring
context to allow for access to Spring's facilities. This is the case by default in Java
EE 5 environments, using the standard contract for JAX-WS servlet endpoint deployment.
See Java EE 5 web service tutorials for details.



[[remoting-web-services-jaxws-export-standalone]]
==== Exporting standalone web services using JAX-WS
The built-in JAX-WS provider that comes with Oracle's JDK 1.6 supports exposure of web
services using the built-in HTTP server that's included in JDK 1.6 as well. Spring's
`SimpleJaxWsServiceExporter` detects all `@WebService` annotated beans in the Spring
application context, exporting them through the default JAX-WS server (the JDK 1.6 HTTP
server).

In this scenario, the endpoint instances are defined and managed as Spring beans
themselves; they will be registered with the JAX-WS engine but their lifecycle will be
up to the Spring application context. This means that Spring functionality like explicit
dependency injection may be applied to the endpoint instances. Of course,
annotation-driven injection through `@Autowired` will work as well.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.SimpleJaxWsServiceExporter">
		<property name="baseAddress" value="http://localhost:8080/"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="accountServiceEndpoint" class="example.AccountServiceEndpoint">
		...
	</bean>

	...
----

The `AccountServiceEndpoint` may derive from Spring's `SpringBeanAutowiringSupport` but
doesn't have to since the endpoint is a fully Spring-managed bean here. This means that
the endpoint implementation may look like as follows, without any superclass declared -
and Spring's `@Autowired` configuration annotation still being honored:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@WebService(serviceName="AccountService")
	public class AccountServiceEndpoint {

		@Autowired
		private AccountService biz;

		@WebMethod
		public void insertAccount(Account acc) {
			biz.insertAccount(acc);
		}

		@WebMethod
		public List<Account> getAccounts(String name) {
			return biz.getAccounts(name);
		}

	}
----



[[remoting-web-services-jaxws-export-ri]]
==== Exporting web services using the JAX-WS RI's Spring support
Oracle's JAX-WS RI, developed as part of the GlassFish project, ships Spring support as
part of its JAX-WS Commons project. This allows for defining JAX-WS endpoints as
Spring-managed beans, similar to the standalone mode discussed in the previous section -
but this time in a Servlet environment. __Note that this is not portable in a Java EE 5
environment; it is mainly intended for non-EE environments such as Tomcat, embedding the
JAX-WS RI as part of the web application.__

The difference to the standard style of exporting servlet-based endpoints is that the
lifecycle of the endpoint instances themselves will be managed by Spring here, and that
there will be only one JAX-WS servlet defined in `web.xml`. With the standard Java EE 5
style (as illustrated above), you'll have one servlet definition per service endpoint,
with each endpoint typically delegating to Spring beans (through the use of
`@Autowired`, as shown above).

Check out https://jax-ws-commons.java.net/spring/[https://jax-ws-commons.java.net/spring/]
for details on setup and usage style.



[[remoting-web-services-jaxws-access]]
==== Accessing web services using JAX-WS
Spring provides two factory beans to create JAX-WS web service proxies, namely
`LocalJaxWsServiceFactoryBean` and `JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean`. The former can only
return a JAX-WS service class for us to work with. The latter is the full-fledged
version that can return a proxy that implements our business service interface. In this
example we use the latter to create a proxy for the `AccountService` endpoint (again):

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="accountWebService" class="org.springframework.remoting.jaxws.JaxWsPortProxyFactoryBean">
		<property name="serviceInterface" value="example.AccountService"/>
		<property name="wsdlDocumentUrl" value="http://localhost:8888/AccountServiceEndpoint?WSDL"/>
		<property name="namespaceUri" value="http://example/"/>
		<property name="serviceName" value="AccountService"/>
		<property name="portName" value="AccountServiceEndpointPort"/>
	</bean>
----

Where `serviceInterface` is our business interface the clients will use.
`wsdlDocumentUrl` is the URL for the WSDL file. Spring needs this a startup time to
create the JAX-WS Service. `namespaceUri` corresponds to the targetNamespace in the
.wsdl file. `serviceName` corresponds to the service name in the .wsdl file. `portName`
corresponds to the port name in the .wsdl file.

Accessing the web service is now very easy as we have a bean factory for it that will
expose it as `AccountService` interface. We can wire this up in Spring:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="client" class="example.AccountClientImpl">
		...
		<property name="service" ref="accountWebService"/>
	</bean>
----

From the client code we can access the web service just as if it was a normal class:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class AccountClientImpl {

		private AccountService service;

		public void setService(AccountService service) {
			this.service = service;
		}

		public void foo() {
			service.insertAccount(...);
		}
	}
----

[NOTE]
====
The above is slightly simplified in that JAX-WS requires endpoint interfaces
and implementation classes to be annotated with `@WebService`, `@SOAPBinding` etc
annotations. This means that you cannot (easily) use plain Java interfaces and
implementation classes as JAX-WS endpoint artifacts; you need to annotate them
accordingly first. Check the JAX-WS documentation for details on those requirements.
====




[[remoting-jms]]
=== JMS
It is also possible to expose services transparently using JMS as the underlying
communication protocol. The JMS remoting support in the Spring Framework is pretty basic
- it sends and receives on the `same thread` and in the __same non-transactional__
`Session`, and as such throughput will be very implementation dependent. Note that these
single-threaded and non-transactional constraints apply only to Spring's JMS
__remoting__ support. See <<jms>> for information on Spring's rich support for JMS-based
__messaging__.

The following interface is used on both the server and the client side.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package com.foo;

	public interface CheckingAccountService {

		public void cancelAccount(Long accountId);

	}
----

The following simple implementation of the above interface is used on the server-side.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package com.foo;

	public class SimpleCheckingAccountService implements CheckingAccountService {

		public void cancelAccount(Long accountId) {
			System.out.println("Cancelling account [" + accountId + "]");
		}

	}
----

This configuration file contains the JMS-infrastructure beans that are shared on both
the client and server.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

		<bean id="connectionFactory" class="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory">
			<property name="brokerURL" value="tcp://ep-t43:61616"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="queue" class="org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQQueue">
			<constructor-arg value="mmm"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----



[[remoting-jms-server]]
==== Server-side configuration
On the server, you just need to expose the service object using the
`JmsInvokerServiceExporter`.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

		<bean id="checkingAccountService"
				class="org.springframework.jms.remoting.JmsInvokerServiceExporter">
			<property name="serviceInterface" value="com.foo.CheckingAccountService"/>
			<property name="service">
				<bean class="com.foo.SimpleCheckingAccountService"/>
			</property>
		</bean>

		<bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer">
			<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
			<property name="destination" ref="queue"/>
			<property name="concurrentConsumers" value="3"/>
			<property name="messageListener" ref="checkingAccountService"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package com.foo;

	import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

	public class Server {

		public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
			new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[]{"com/foo/server.xml", "com/foo/jms.xml"});
		}

	}
----



[[remoting-jms-client]]
==== Client-side configuration
The client merely needs to create a client-side proxy that will implement the agreed
upon interface ( `CheckingAccountService`). The resulting object created off the back of
the following bean definition can be injected into other client side objects, and the
proxy will take care of forwarding the call to the server-side object via JMS.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

		<bean id="checkingAccountService"
				class="org.springframework.jms.remoting.JmsInvokerProxyFactoryBean">
			<property name="serviceInterface" value="com.foo.CheckingAccountService"/>
			<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
			<property name="queue" ref="queue"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package com.foo;

	import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
	import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

	public class Client {

		public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
			ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
					new String[] {"com/foo/client.xml", "com/foo/jms.xml"});
			CheckingAccountService service = (CheckingAccountService) ctx.getBean("checkingAccountService");
			service.cancelAccount(new Long(10));
		}

	}
----


[[remoting-amqp]]
=== AMQP
Refer to the {doc-spring-amqp}/html/_reference.html#remoting[Spring AMQP Reference Document
'Spring Remoting with AMQP' section] for more information.




[[remoting-autodection-remote-interfaces]]
=== Auto-detection is not implemented for remote interfaces
The main reason why auto-detection of implemented interfaces does not occur for remote
interfaces is to avoid opening too many doors to remote callers. The target object might
implement internal callback interfaces like `InitializingBean` or `DisposableBean` which
one would not want to expose to callers.

Offering a proxy with all interfaces implemented by the target usually does not matter
in the local case. But when exporting a remote service, you should expose a specific
service interface, with specific operations intended for remote usage. Besides internal
callback interfaces, the target might implement multiple business interfaces, with just
one of them intended for remote exposure. For these reasons, we __require__ such a
service interface to be specified.

This is a trade-off between configuration convenience and the risk of accidental
exposure of internal methods. Always specifying a service interface is not too much
effort, and puts you on the safe side regarding controlled exposure of specific methods.




[[remoting-considerations]]
=== Considerations when choosing a technology
Each and every technology presented here has its drawbacks. You should carefully
consider your needs, the services you are exposing and the objects you'll be sending
over the wire when choosing a technology.

When using RMI, it's not possible to access the objects through the HTTP protocol,
unless you're tunneling the RMI traffic. RMI is a fairly heavy-weight protocol in that
it supports full-object serialization which is important when using a complex data model
that needs serialization over the wire. However, RMI-JRMP is tied to Java clients: It is
a Java-to-Java remoting solution.

Spring's HTTP invoker is a good choice if you need HTTP-based remoting but also rely on
Java serialization. It shares the basic infrastructure with RMI invokers, just using
HTTP as transport. Note that HTTP invokers are not only limited to Java-to-Java remoting
but also to Spring on both the client and server side. (The latter also applies to
Spring's RMI invoker for non-RMI interfaces.)

Hessian and/or Burlap might provide significant value when operating in a heterogeneous
environment, because they explicitly allow for non-Java clients. However, non-Java
support is still limited. Known issues include the serialization of Hibernate objects in
combination with lazily-initialized collections. If you have such a data model, consider
using RMI or HTTP invokers instead of Hessian.

JMS can be useful for providing clusters of services and allowing the JMS broker to take
care of load balancing, discovery and auto-failover. By default: Java serialization is
used when using JMS remoting but the JMS provider could use a different mechanism for
the wire formatting, such as XStream to allow servers to be implemented in other
technologies.

Last but not least, EJB has an advantage over RMI in that it supports standard
role-based authentication and authorization and remote transaction propagation. It is
possible to get RMI invokers or HTTP invokers to support security context propagation as
well, although this is not provided by core Spring: There are just appropriate hooks for
plugging in third-party or custom solutions here.




[[rest-client-access]]
=== Accessing RESTful services on the Client
The `RestTemplate` is the core class for client-side access to RESTful services. It is
conceptually similar to other template classes in Spring, such as `JdbcTemplate` and
`JmsTemplate` and other template classes found in other Spring portfolio projects.
`RestTemplate`'s behavior is customized by providing callback methods and configuring
the `HttpMessageConverter` used to marshal objects into the HTTP request body and to
unmarshal any response back into an object. As it is common to use XML as a message
format, Spring provides a `MarshallingHttpMessageConverter` that uses the Object-to-XML
framework that is part of the `org.springframework.oxm` package. This gives you a wide
range of choices of XML to Object mapping technologies to choose from.

This section describes how to use the `RestTemplate` and its associated
`HttpMessageConverters`.



[[rest-resttemplate]]
==== RestTemplate
Invoking RESTful services in Java is typically done using a helper class such as Apache
HttpComponents `HttpClient`. For common REST operations this approach is too low level as
shown below.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	String uri = "http://example.com/hotels/1/bookings";

	PostMethod post = new PostMethod(uri);
	String request = // create booking request content
	post.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(request));

	httpClient.executeMethod(post);

	if (HttpStatus.SC_CREATED == post.getStatusCode()) {
		Header location = post.getRequestHeader("Location");
		if (location != null) {
			System.out.println("Created new booking at :" + location.getValue());
		}
	}
----

RestTemplate provides higher level methods that correspond to each of the six main HTTP
methods that make invoking many RESTful services a one-liner and enforce REST best
practices.


[NOTE]
====
RestTemplate has an asynchronous counter-part: see <<rest-async-resttemplate>>.
====

[[rest-overview-of-resttemplate-methods-tbl]]
.Overview of RestTemplate methods
[cols="1,3"]
|===
| HTTP Method | RestTemplate Method

| DELETE
| {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#delete(String,%20Object...)[delete]

| GET
| {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#getForObject(String,%20Class,%20Object...)[getForObject]
  {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#getForEntity(String,%20Class,%20Object...)[getForEntity]

| HEAD
| {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#headForHeaders(String,%20Object...)[headForHeaders(String
  url, String... urlVariables)]

| OPTIONS
| {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#optionsForAllow(String,%20Object...)[optionsForAllow(String
  url, String... urlVariables)]

| POST
| {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#postForLocation(String,%20Object,%20Object...)[postForLocation(String
  url, Object request, String... urlVariables)]
  {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#postForObject(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Object,%20java.lang.Class,%20java.lang.String...)[postForObject(String
  url, Object request, Class<T> responseType, String... uriVariables)]

| PUT
| {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#put(String,%20Object,%20Object...)[put(String
  url, Object request, String...urlVariables)]

| PATCH and others
| {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#exchange(java.lang.String,%20org.springframework.http.HttpMethod,%20org.springframework.http.HttpEntity,%20java.lang.Class,%20java.lang.Object...)[exchange]
  {api-spring-framework}/web/client/RestTemplate.html#execute(java.lang.String,%20org.springframework.http.HttpMethod,%20org.springframework.web.client.RequestCallback,%20org.springframework.web.client.ResponseExtractor,%20java.lang.Object...)[execute]
|===

The names of `RestTemplate` methods follow a naming convention, the first part indicates
what HTTP method is being invoked and the second part indicates what is returned. For
example, the method `getForObject()` will perform a GET, convert the HTTP response into
an object type of your choice and return that object. The method `postForLocation()`
will do a POST, converting the given object into a HTTP request and return the response
HTTP Location header where the newly created object can be found. In case of an
exception processing the HTTP request, an exception of the type `RestClientException`
will be thrown; this behavior can be changed by plugging in another
`ResponseErrorHandler` implementation into the `RestTemplate`.

The `exchange` and `execute` methods are generalized versions of the more
specific methods listed above them and can support additional combinations and methods,
like HTTP PATCH. However, note that the underlying HTTP library must also support the
desired combination. The JDK `HttpURLConnection` does not support the `PATCH` method, but
Apache HttpComponents HttpClient version 4.2 or later does. They also enable
`RestTemplate` to read an HTTP response to a generic type (e.g. `List<Account>`), using a
`ParameterizedTypeReference`, a new class that enables capturing and passing generic
type info.

Objects passed to and returned from these methods are converted to and from HTTP
messages by `HttpMessageConverter` instances. Converters for the main mime types are
registered by default, but you can also write your own converter and register it via the
`messageConverters()` bean property. The default converter instances registered with the
template are `ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter`, `StringHttpMessageConverter`,
`FormHttpMessageConverter` and `SourceHttpMessageConverter`. You can override these
defaults using the `messageConverters()` bean property as would be required if using the
`MarshallingHttpMessageConverter` or `MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter`.

Each method takes URI template arguments in two forms, either as a `String` variable
length argument or a `Map<String,String>`. For example,

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	String result = restTemplate.getForObject(
			"http://example.com/hotels/{hotel}/bookings/{booking}", String.class,"42", "21");
----

using variable length arguments and

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	Map<String, String> vars = Collections.singletonMap("hotel", "42");
	String result = restTemplate.getForObject(
			"http://example.com/hotels/{hotel}/rooms/{hotel}", String.class, vars);
----

using a `Map<String,String>`.

To create an instance of `RestTemplate` you can simply call the default no-arg
constructor. This will use standard Java classes from the `java.net` package as the
underlying implementation to create HTTP requests. This can be overridden by specifying
an implementation of `ClientHttpRequestFactory`. Spring provides the implementation
`HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory` that uses the Apache HttpComponents
`HttpClient` to create requests. `HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory` is configured
using an instance of `org.apache.http.client.HttpClient` which can in turn be configured
with credentials information or connection pooling functionality.

[TIP]
====
Note that the `java.net` implementation for HTTP requests may raise an exception when
accessing the status of a response that represents an error (e.g. 401). If this is an
issue, switch to `HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory` instead.
====
The previous example using Apache HttpComponents `HttpClient` directly rewritten to use
the `RestTemplate` is shown below

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	uri = "http://example.com/hotels/{id}/bookings";

	RestTemplate template = new RestTemplate();

	Booking booking = // create booking object

	URI location = template.postForLocation(uri, booking, "1");
----

To use Apache HttpComponents instead of the native `java.net` functionality, construct
the `RestTemplate` as follows:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	RestTemplate template = new RestTemplate(new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory());
----

[TIP]
====
Apache HttpClient supports gzip encoding. To use it,
construct a `HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory` like so:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	HttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
    ClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory(httpClient);
    RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(requestFactory);
----
====
The general callback interface is `RequestCallback` and is called when the execute
method is invoked.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public <T> T execute(String url, HttpMethod method, RequestCallback requestCallback,
			ResponseExtractor<T> responseExtractor, String... urlVariables)

	// also has an overload with urlVariables as a Map<String, String>.
----

The `RequestCallback` interface is defined as

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface RequestCallback {
	 void doWithRequest(ClientHttpRequest request) throws IOException;
	}
----

and allows you to manipulate the request headers and write to the request body. When
using the execute method you do not have to worry about any resource management, the
template will always close the request and handle any errors. Refer to the API
documentation for more information on using the execute method and the meaning of its
other method arguments.


[[rest-resttemplate-uri]]
===== Working with the URI
For each of the main HTTP methods, the `RestTemplate` provides variants that either take
a String URI or `java.net.URI` as the first argument.

The String URI variants accept template arguments as a String variable length argument
or as a `Map<String,String>`. They also assume the URL String is not encoded and needs
to be encoded. For example the following:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	restTemplate.getForObject("http://example.com/hotel list", String.class);
----

will perform a GET on `http://example.com/hotel%20list`. That means if the input URL
String is already encoded, it will be encoded twice -- i.e.
`http://example.com/hotel%20list` will become `http://example.com/hotel%2520list`. If
this is not the intended effect, use the `java.net.URI` method variant, which assumes
the URL is already encoded is also generally useful if you want to reuse a single (fully
expanded) `URI` multiple times.

The `UriComponentsBuilder` class can be used to build and encode the `URI` including
support for URI templates. For example you can start with a URL String:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	UriComponents uriComponents = UriComponentsBuilder.fromUriString(
			"http://example.com/hotels/{hotel}/bookings/{booking}").build()
			.expand("42", "21")
			.encode();

	URI uri = uriComponents.toUri();
----

Or specify each URI component individually:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	UriComponents uriComponents = UriComponentsBuilder.newInstance()
			.scheme("http").host("example.com").path("/hotels/{hotel}/bookings/{booking}").build()
			.expand("42", "21")
			.encode();

	URI uri = uriComponents.toUri();
----


[[rest-template-headers]]
===== Dealing with request and response headers
Besides the methods described above, the `RestTemplate` also has the `exchange()`
method, which can be used for arbitrary HTTP method execution based on the `HttpEntity`
class.

Perhaps most importantly, the `exchange()` method can be used to add request headers and
read response headers. For example:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	HttpHeaders requestHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
	requestHeaders.set("MyRequestHeader", "MyValue");
	HttpEntity<?> requestEntity = new HttpEntity(requestHeaders);

	HttpEntity<String> response = template.exchange(
			"http://example.com/hotels/{hotel}",
			HttpMethod.GET, requestEntity, String.class, "42");

	String responseHeader = response.getHeaders().getFirst("MyResponseHeader");
	String body = response.getBody();
----

In the above example, we first prepare a request entity that contains the
`MyRequestHeader` header. We then retrieve the response, and read the `MyResponseHeader`
and body.

[[rest-template-jsonview]]
===== Jackson JSON Views support

It is possible to specify a http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonJsonViews[Jackson JSON View]
to serialize only a subset of the object properties. For example:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	MappingJacksonValue value = new MappingJacksonValue(new User("eric", "7!jd#h23"));
	value.setSerializationView(User.WithoutPasswordView.class);
	HttpEntity<MappingJacksonValue> entity = new HttpEntity<MappingJacksonValue>(value);
	String s = template.postForObject("http://example.com/user", entity, String.class);
----


[[rest-message-conversion]]
==== HTTP Message Conversion
Objects passed to and returned from the methods `getForObject()`, `postForLocation()`,
and `put()` are converted to HTTP requests and from HTTP responses by
`HttpMessageConverters`. The `HttpMessageConverter` interface is shown below to give you
a better feel for its functionality

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface HttpMessageConverter<T> {

		// Indicate whether the given class and media type can be read by this converter.
		boolean canRead(Class<?> clazz, MediaType mediaType);

		// Indicate whether the given class and media type can be written by this converter.
		boolean canWrite(Class<?> clazz, MediaType mediaType);

		// Return the list of MediaType objects supported by this converter.
		List<MediaType> getSupportedMediaTypes();

		// Read an object of the given type from the given input message, and returns it.
		T read(Class<T> clazz, HttpInputMessage inputMessage) throws IOException, HttpMessageNotReadableException;

		// Write an given object to the given output message.
		void write(T t, HttpOutputMessage outputMessage) throws IOException, HttpMessageNotWritableException;

	}
----

Concrete implementations for the main media (mime) types are provided in the framework
and are registered by default with the `RestTemplate` on the client-side and with
`AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter` on the server-side.

The implementations of ``HttpMessageConverter``s are described in the following sections.
For all converters a default media type is used but can be overridden by setting the
`supportedMediaTypes` bean property


[[rest-string-converter]]
===== StringHttpMessageConverter
An `HttpMessageConverter` implementation that can read and write Strings from the HTTP
request and response. By default, this converter supports all text media types (
`text/{asterisk}`), and writes with a `Content-Type` of `text/plain`.


[[rest-form-converter]]
===== FormHttpMessageConverter
An `HttpMessageConverter` implementation that can read and write form data from the HTTP
request and response. By default, this converter reads and writes the media type
`application/x-www-form-urlencoded`. Form data is read from and written into a
`MultiValueMap<String, String>`.


[[rest-byte-converter]]
===== ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter
An `HttpMessageConverter` implementation that can read and write byte arrays from the
HTTP request and response. By default, this converter supports all media types ( `{asterisk}/{asterisk}`),
and writes with a `Content-Type` of `application/octet-stream`. This can be overridden
by setting the `supportedMediaTypes` property, and overriding `getContentType(byte[])`.


[[rest-marhsalling-converter]]
===== MarshallingHttpMessageConverter
An `HttpMessageConverter` implementation that can read and write XML using Spring's
`Marshaller` and `Unmarshaller` abstractions from the `org.springframework.oxm` package.
This converter requires a `Marshaller` and `Unmarshaller` before it can be used. These
can be injected via constructor or bean properties. By default this converter supports (
`text/xml`) and ( `application/xml`).


[[rest-mapping-json-converter]]
===== MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter
An `HttpMessageConverter` implementation that can read and write JSON using Jackson's
`ObjectMapper`. JSON mapping can be customized as needed through the use of Jackson's
provided annotations. When further control is needed, a custom `ObjectMapper` can be
injected through the `ObjectMapper` property for cases where custom JSON
serializers/deserializers need to be provided for specific types. By default this
converter supports ( `application/json`).


[[rest-mapping-xml-converter]]
===== MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter
An `HttpMessageConverter` implementation that can read and write XML using
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-xml[Jackson XML] extension's
`XmlMapper`. XML mapping can be customized as needed through the use of JAXB
or Jackson's provided annotations. When further control is needed, a custom `XmlMapper`
can be injected through the `ObjectMapper` property for cases where custom XML
serializers/deserializers need to be provided for specific types. By default this
converter supports ( `application/xml`).


[[rest-source-converter]]
===== SourceHttpMessageConverter
An `HttpMessageConverter` implementation that can read and write
`javax.xml.transform.Source` from the HTTP request and response. Only `DOMSource`,
`SAXSource`, and `StreamSource` are supported. By default, this converter supports (
`text/xml`) and ( `application/xml`).


[[rest-buffered-image-converter]]
===== BufferedImageHttpMessageConverter
An `HttpMessageConverter` implementation that can read and write
`java.awt.image.BufferedImage` from the HTTP request and response. This converter reads
and writes the media type supported by the Java I/O API.

[[rest-async-resttemplate]]
==== Async RestTemplate

Web applications often need to query external REST services those days. The very nature of
HTTP and synchronous calls can lead up to challenges when scaling applications for those
needs: multiple threads may be blocked, waiting for remote HTTP responses.

`AsyncRestTemplate` and <<rest-resttemplate>>'s APIs are very similar; see
<<rest-overview-of-resttemplate-methods-tbl>>. The main difference between those APIs is
that `AsyncRestTemplate` returns
{api-spring-framework}/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.html[`ListenableFuture`]
wrappers as opposed to concrete results.

The previous `RestTemplate` example translates to:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	// async call
	Future<ResponseEntity<String>> futureEntity = template.getForEntity(
		"http://example.com/hotels/{hotel}/bookings/{booking}", String.class, "42", "21");

	// get the concrete result - synchronous call
	ResponseEntity<String> entity = futureEntity.get();
----

{api-spring-framework}/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.html[`ListenableFuture`]
accepts completion callbacks:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	ListenableFuture<ResponseEntity<String>> futureEntity = template.getForEntity(
		"http://example.com/hotels/{hotel}/bookings/{booking}", String.class, "42", "21");

	// register a callback
	futureEntity.addCallback(new ListenableFutureCallback<ResponseEntity<String>>() {
		@Override
		public void onSuccess(ResponseEntity<String> entity) {
			//...
		}

		@Override
		public void onFailure(Throwable t) {
			//...
		}
	});
----

[NOTE]
====
The default `AsyncRestTemplate` constructor registers a
{api-spring-framework}/core/task/SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor.html[`SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor`
] for executing HTTP requests.
When dealing with a large number of short-lived requests, a thread-pooling TaskExecutor
implementation like
{api-spring-framework}/scheduling/concurrent/ThreadPoolTaskExecutor.html[`ThreadPoolTaskExecutor`]
may be a good choice.
====

See the
{api-spring-framework}/util/concurrent/ListenableFuture.html[`ListenableFuture` javadocs]
and
{api-spring-framework}/web/client/AsyncRestTemplate.html[`AsyncRestTemplate` javadocs]
for more details.




[[ejb]]
== Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) integration




[[ejb-introduction]]
=== Introduction
As a lightweight container, Spring is often considered an EJB replacement. We do believe
that for many if not most applications and use cases, Spring as a container, combined
with its rich supporting functionality in the area of transactions, ORM and JDBC access,
is a better choice than implementing equivalent functionality via an EJB container and
EJBs.

However, it is important to note that using Spring does not prevent you from using EJBs.
In fact, Spring makes it much easier to access EJBs and implement EJBs and functionality
within them. Additionally, using Spring to access services provided by EJBs allows the
implementation of those services to later transparently be switched between local EJB,
remote EJB, or POJO (plain old Java object) variants, without the client code having to
be changed.

In this chapter, we look at how Spring can help you access and implement EJBs. Spring
provides particular value when accessing stateless session beans (SLSBs), so we'll begin
by discussing this.




[[ejb-access]]
=== Accessing EJBs



[[ejb-access-concepts]]
==== Concepts
To invoke a method on a local or remote stateless session bean, client code must
normally perform a JNDI lookup to obtain the (local or remote) EJB Home object, then use
a 'create' method call on that object to obtain the actual (local or remote) EJB object.
One or more methods are then invoked on the EJB.

To avoid repeated low-level code, many EJB applications use the Service Locator and
Business Delegate patterns. These are better than spraying JNDI lookups throughout
client code, but their usual implementations have significant disadvantages. For example:

* Typically code using EJBs depends on Service Locator or Business Delegate singletons,
  making it hard to test.
* In the case of the Service Locator pattern used without a Business Delegate,
  application code still ends up having to invoke the create() method on an EJB home,
  and deal with the resulting exceptions. Thus it remains tied to the EJB API and the
  complexity of the EJB programming model.
* Implementing the Business Delegate pattern typically results in significant code
  duplication, where we have to write numerous methods that simply call the same method
  on the EJB.

The Spring approach is to allow the creation and use of proxy objects, normally
configured inside a Spring container, which act as codeless business delegates. You do
not need	to write another Service Locator, another JNDI lookup, or duplicate methods in
a hand-coded Business Delegate unless you are actually adding real value in such code.



[[ejb-access-local]]
==== Accessing local SLSBs
Assume that we have a web controller that needs to use a local EJB. We'll follow best
practice and use the EJB Business Methods Interface pattern, so that the EJB's local
interface extends a non EJB-specific business methods interface. Let's call this
business methods interface `MyComponent`.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface MyComponent {
		...
	}
----

One of the main reasons to use the Business Methods Interface pattern is to ensure that
synchronization between method signatures in local interface and bean implementation
class is automatic. Another reason is that it later makes it much easier for us to
switch to a POJO (plain old Java object) implementation of the service if it makes sense
to do so. Of course we'll also need to implement the local home interface and provide an
implementation class that implements `SessionBean` and the `MyComponent` business
methods interface. Now the only Java coding we'll need to do to hook up our web tier
controller to the EJB implementation is to expose a setter method of type `MyComponent`
on the controller. This will save the reference as an instance variable in the
controller:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	private MyComponent myComponent;

	public void setMyComponent(MyComponent myComponent) {
		this.myComponent = myComponent;
	}
----

We can subsequently use this instance variable in any business method in the controller.
Now assuming we are obtaining our controller object out of a Spring container, we can
(in the same context) configure a `LocalStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean` instance,
which will be the EJB proxy object. The configuration of the proxy, and setting of the
`myComponent` property of the controller is done with a configuration entry such as:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="myComponent"
			class="org.springframework.ejb.access.LocalStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean">
		<property name="jndiName" value="ejb/myBean"/>
		<property name="businessInterface" value="com.mycom.MyComponent"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="myController" class="com.mycom.myController">
		<property name="myComponent" ref="myComponent"/>
	</bean>
----

There's a lot of work happening behind the scenes, courtesy of the Spring AOP framework,
although you aren't forced to work with AOP concepts to enjoy the results. The
`myComponent` bean definition creates a proxy for the EJB, which implements the business
method interface. The EJB local home is cached on startup, so there's only a single JNDI
lookup. Each time the EJB is invoked, the proxy invokes the `classname` method on the
local EJB and invokes the	corresponding business method on the EJB.

The `myController` bean definition sets the `myComponent` property of the controller
class to the EJB proxy.

Alternatively (and preferably in case of many such proxy definitions), consider using
the `<jee:local-slsb>` configuration element in Spring's "jee" namespace:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jee:local-slsb id="myComponent" jndi-name="ejb/myBean"
			business-interface="com.mycom.MyComponent"/>

	<bean id="myController" class="com.mycom.myController">
		<property name="myComponent" ref="myComponent"/>
	</bean>
----

This EJB access mechanism delivers huge simplification of application code: the web tier
code (or other EJB client code) has no dependence on the use of EJB. If we want to
replace this EJB reference with a POJO or a mock object or other test stub, we could
simply change the `myComponent` bean definition without changing a line of Java code.
Additionally, we haven't had to write a single line of JNDI lookup or other EJB plumbing
code as part of our application.

Benchmarks and experience in real applications indicate that the performance overhead of
this approach (which involves reflective invocation of the target EJB) is minimal, and
is typically undetectable in typical use. Remember that we don't want to make
fine-grained calls to EJBs anyway, as there's a cost associated with the EJB
infrastructure in the application server.

There is one caveat with regards to the JNDI lookup. In a bean container, this class is
normally best used as a singleton (there simply is no reason to make it a prototype).
However, if that bean container pre-instantiates singletons (as do the various XML
`ApplicationContext` variants) you may have a problem if the bean container is loaded
before the EJB container loads the target EJB. That is because the JNDI lookup will be
performed in the `init()` method of this class and then cached, but the EJB will not
have been bound at the target location yet. The solution is to not pre-instantiate this
factory object, but allow it to be created on first use. In the XML containers, this is
controlled via the `lazy-init` attribute.

Although this will not be of interest to the majority of Spring users, those doing
programmatic AOP work with EJBs may want to look at `LocalSlsbInvokerInterceptor`.



[[ejb-access-remote]]
==== Accessing remote SLSBs
Accessing remote EJBs is essentially identical to accessing local EJBs, except that the
`SimpleRemoteStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean` or `<jee:remote-slsb>` configuration
element is used. Of course, with or without Spring, remote invocation semantics apply; a
call to a method on an object in another VM in another computer does sometimes have to
be treated differently in terms of usage scenarios and failure handling.

Spring's EJB client support adds one more advantage over the non-Spring approach.
Normally it is problematic for EJB client code to be easily switched back and forth
between calling EJBs locally or remotely. This is because the remote interface methods
must declare that they throw `RemoteException`, and client code must deal with this,
while the local interface methods don't. Client code written for local EJBs which needs
to be moved to remote EJBs typically has to be modified to add handling for the remote
exceptions, and client code written for remote EJBs which needs to be moved to local
EJBs, can either stay the same but do a lot of unnecessary handling of remote
exceptions, or needs to be modified to remove that code. With the Spring remote EJB
proxy, you can instead not declare any thrown `RemoteException` in your Business Method
Interface and implementing EJB code, have a remote interface which is identical except
that it does throw `RemoteException`, and rely on the proxy to dynamically treat the two
interfaces as if they were the same. That is, client code does not have to deal with the
checked `RemoteException` class. Any actual `RemoteException` that is thrown during the
EJB invocation will be re-thrown as the non-checked `RemoteAccessException` class, which
is a subclass of `RuntimeException`. The target service can then be switched at will
between a local EJB or remote EJB (or even plain Java object) implementation, without
the client code knowing or caring. Of course, this is optional; there is nothing
stopping you from declaring `RemoteExceptions` in your business interface.



[[ejb-access-ejb2-ejb3]]
==== Accessing EJB 2.x SLSBs versus EJB 3 SLSBs
Accessing EJB 2.x Session Beans and EJB 3 Session Beans via Spring is largely
transparent. Spring's EJB accessors, including the `<jee:local-slsb>` and
`<jee:remote-slsb>` facilities, transparently adapt to the actual component at runtime.
They handle a home interface if found (EJB 2.x style), or perform straight component
invocations if no home interface is available (EJB 3 style).

Note: For EJB 3 Session Beans, you could effectively use a `JndiObjectFactoryBean` /
`<jee:jndi-lookup>` as well, since fully usable component references are exposed for
plain JNDI lookups there. Defining explicit `<jee:local-slsb>` / `<jee:remote-slsb>`
lookups simply provides consistent and more explicit EJB access configuration.




[[ejb-implementation]]
=== Using Spring's EJB implementation support classes



[[ejb-implementation-ejb3]]
==== EJB 3 injection interceptor
For EJB 3 Session Beans and Message-Driven Beans, Spring provides a convenient
interceptor that resolves Spring's `@Autowired` annotation in the EJB component
class: `org.springframework.ejb.interceptor.SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor`. This
interceptor can be applied through an `@Interceptors` annotation in the EJB component
class, or through an `interceptor-binding` XML element in the EJB deployment descriptor.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Stateless
	@Interceptors(SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor.class)
	public class MyFacadeEJB implements MyFacadeLocal {

		// automatically injected with a matching Spring bean
		@Autowired
		private MyComponent myComp;

		// for business method, delegate to POJO service impl.
		public String myFacadeMethod(...) {
			return myComp.myMethod(...);
		}

		...

	}
----

`SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor` by default obtains target beans from a
`ContextSingletonBeanFactoryLocator`, with the context defined in a bean definition file
named `beanRefContext.xml`. By default, a single context definition is expected, which
is obtained by type rather than by name. However, if you need to choose between multiple
context definitions, a specific locator key is required. The locator key (i.e. the name
of the context definition in `beanRefContext.xml`) can be explicitly specified either
through overriding the `getBeanFactoryLocatorKey` method in a custom
`SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor` subclass.

Alternatively, consider overriding `SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor`'s `getBeanFactory`
method, e.g. obtaining a shared `ApplicationContext` from a custom holder class.




[[jms]]
== JMS (Java Message Service)




[[jms-introduction]]
=== Introduction
Spring provides a JMS integration framework that simplifies the use of the JMS API much
like Spring's integration does for the JDBC API.

JMS can be roughly divided into two areas of functionality, namely the production and
consumption of messages. The `JmsTemplate` class is used for message production and
synchronous message reception. For asynchronous reception similar to Java EE's
message-driven bean style, Spring provides a number of message listener containers that
are used to create Message-Driven POJOs (MDPs). Spring also provides a declarative way
of creating message listeners.

The package `org.springframework.jms.core` provides the core functionality for using
JMS. It contains JMS template classes that simplify the use of the JMS by handling the
creation and release of resources, much like the `JdbcTemplate` does for JDBC. The
design principle common to Spring template classes is to provide helper methods to
perform common operations and for more sophisticated usage, delegate the essence of the
processing task to user implemented callback interfaces. The JMS template follows the
same design. The classes offer various convenience methods for the sending of messages,
consuming a message synchronously, and exposing the JMS session and message producer to
the user.

The package `org.springframework.jms.support` provides `JMSException` translation
functionality. The translation converts the checked `JMSException` hierarchy to a
mirrored hierarchy of unchecked exceptions. If there are any provider specific
subclasses of the checked `javax.jms.JMSException`, this exception is wrapped in the
unchecked `UncategorizedJmsException`.

The package `org.springframework.jms.support.converter` provides a `MessageConverter`
abstraction to convert between Java objects and JMS messages.

The package `org.springframework.jms.support.destination` provides various strategies
for managing JMS destinations, such as providing a service locator for destinations
stored in JNDI.

The package `org.springframework.jms.annotation` provides the necessary infrastructure
to support annotation-driven listener endpoints using `@JmsListener`.

The package `org.springframework.jms.config` provides the parser implementation for the
`jms` namespace as well the java config support to configure listener containers and
create listener endpoints.

Finally, the package `org.springframework.jms.connection` provides an implementation of
the `ConnectionFactory` suitable for use in standalone applications. It also contains an
implementation of Spring's `PlatformTransactionManager` for JMS (the cunningly named
`JmsTransactionManager`). This allows for seamless integration of JMS as a transactional
resource into Spring's transaction management mechanisms.




[[jms-using]]
=== Using Spring JMS



[[jms-jmstemplate]]
==== JmsTemplate

The `JmsTemplate` class is the central class in the JMS core package. It simplifies the
use of JMS since it handles the creation and release of resources when sending or
synchronously receiving messages.

Code that uses the `JmsTemplate` only needs to implement callback interfaces giving them
a clearly defined high level contract. The `MessageCreator` callback interface creates a
message given a `Session` provided by the calling code in `JmsTemplate`. In order to
allow for more complex usage of the JMS API, the callback `SessionCallback` provides the
user with the JMS session and the callback `ProducerCallback` exposes a `Session` and
`MessageProducer` pair.

The JMS API exposes two types of send methods, one that takes delivery mode, priority,
and time-to-live as Quality of Service (QOS) parameters and one that takes no QOS
parameters which uses default values. Since there are many send methods in
`JmsTemplate`, the setting of the QOS parameters have been exposed as bean properties to
avoid duplication in the number of send methods. Similarly, the timeout value for
synchronous receive calls is set using the property `setReceiveTimeout`.

Some JMS providers allow the setting of default QOS values administratively through the
configuration of the `ConnectionFactory`. This has the effect that a call to
`MessageProducer`'s send method `send(Destination destination, Message message)` will
use different QOS default values than those specified in the JMS specification. In order
to provide consistent management of QOS values, the `JmsTemplate` must therefore be
specifically enabled to use its own QOS values by setting the boolean property
`isExplicitQosEnabled` to `true`.

For convenience, `JmsTemplate` also exposes a basic request-reply operation that allows
to send a message and wait for a reply on a temporary queue that is created as part of
the operation.

[NOTE]
====
Instances of the `JmsTemplate` class are __thread-safe once configured__. This is
important because it means that you can configure a single instance of a `JmsTemplate`
and then safely inject this __shared__ reference into multiple collaborators. To be
clear, the `JmsTemplate` is stateful, in that it maintains a reference to a
`ConnectionFactory`, but this state is __not__ conversational state.
====

As of Spring Framework 4.1, `JmsMessagingTemplate` is built on top of `JmsTemplate`
and provides an integration with the messaging abstraction, i.e.
`org.springframework.messaging.Message`. This allows you to create the message to
send in generic manner.


[[jms-connections]]
==== Connections
The `JmsTemplate` requires a reference to a `ConnectionFactory`. The `ConnectionFactory`
is part of the JMS specification and serves as the entry point for working with JMS. It
is used by the client application as a factory to create connections with the JMS
provider and encapsulates various configuration parameters, many of which are vendor
specific such as SSL configuration options.

When using JMS inside an EJB, the vendor provides implementations of the JMS interfaces
so that they can participate in declarative transaction management and perform pooling
of connections and sessions. In order to use this implementation, Java EE containers
typically require that you declare a JMS connection factory as a `resource-ref` inside
the EJB or servlet deployment descriptors. To ensure the use of these features with the
`JmsTemplate` inside an EJB, the client application should ensure that it references the
managed implementation of the `ConnectionFactory`.


[[jms-caching-resources]]
===== Caching Messaging Resources
The standard API involves creating many intermediate objects. To send a message the
following 'API' walk is performed

[literal]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
ConnectionFactory->Connection->Session->MessageProducer->send
----

Between the ConnectionFactory and the Send operation there are three intermediate
objects that are created and destroyed. To optimise the resource usage and increase
performance two implementations of `ConnectionFactory` are provided.


[[jms-connection-factory]]
===== SingleConnectionFactory
Spring provides an implementation of the `ConnectionFactory` interface,
`SingleConnectionFactory`, that will return the same `Connection` on all
`createConnection()` calls and ignore calls to `close()`. This is useful for testing and
standalone environments so that the same connection can be used for multiple
`JmsTemplate` calls that may span any number of transactions. `SingleConnectionFactory`
takes a reference to a standard `ConnectionFactory` that would typically come from JNDI.


[[jdbc-connection-factory-caching]]
===== CachingConnectionFactory
The `CachingConnectionFactory` extends the functionality of `SingleConnectionFactory`
and adds the caching of Sessions, MessageProducers, and MessageConsumers. The initial
cache size is set to 1, use the property `sessionCacheSize` to increase the number of
cached sessions. Note that the number of actual cached sessions will be more than that
number as sessions are cached based on their acknowledgment mode, so there can be up to
4 cached session instances when `sessionCacheSize` is set to one, one for each
acknowledgment mode. MessageProducers and MessageConsumers are cached within their
owning session and also take into account the unique properties of the producers and
consumers when caching. MessageProducers are cached based on their destination.
MessageConsumers are cached based on a key composed of the destination, selector,
noLocal delivery flag, and the durable subscription name (if creating durable consumers).



[[jms-destinations]]
==== Destination Management
Destinations, like ConnectionFactories, are JMS administered objects that can be stored
and retrieved in JNDI. When configuring a Spring application context you can use the
JNDI factory class `JndiObjectFactoryBean` / `<jee:jndi-lookup>` to perform dependency
injection on your object's references to JMS destinations. However, often this strategy
is cumbersome if there are a large number of destinations in the application or if there
are advanced destination management features unique to the JMS provider. Examples of
such advanced destination management would be the creation of dynamic destinations or
support for a hierarchical namespace of destinations. The `JmsTemplate` delegates the
resolution of a destination name to a JMS destination object to an implementation of the
interface `DestinationResolver`. `DynamicDestinationResolver` is the default
implementation used by `JmsTemplate` and accommodates resolving dynamic destinations. A
`JndiDestinationResolver` is also provided that acts as a service locator for
destinations contained in JNDI and optionally falls back to the behavior contained in
`DynamicDestinationResolver`.

Quite often the destinations used in a JMS application are only known at runtime and
therefore cannot be administratively created when the application is deployed. This is
often because there is shared application logic between interacting system components
that create destinations at runtime according to a well-known naming convention. Even
though the creation of dynamic destinations is not part of the JMS specification, most
vendors have provided this functionality. Dynamic destinations are created with a name
defined by the user which differentiates them from temporary destinations and are often
not registered in JNDI. The API used to create dynamic destinations varies from provider
to provider since the properties associated with the destination are vendor specific.
However, a simple implementation choice that is sometimes made by vendors is to
disregard the warnings in the JMS specification and to use the `TopicSession` method
`createTopic(String topicName)` or the `QueueSession` method `createQueue(String
queueName)` to create a new destination with default destination properties. Depending
on the vendor implementation, `DynamicDestinationResolver` may then also create a
physical destination instead of only resolving one.

The boolean property `pubSubDomain` is used to configure the `JmsTemplate` with
knowledge of what JMS domain is being used. By default the value of this property is
false, indicating that the point-to-point domain, Queues, will be used. This property
used by `JmsTemplate` determines the behavior of dynamic destination resolution via
implementations of the `DestinationResolver` interface.

You can also configure the `JmsTemplate` with a default destination via the property
`defaultDestination`. The default destination will be used with send and receive
operations that do not refer to a specific destination.



[[jms-mdp]]
==== Message Listener Containers
One of the most common uses of JMS messages in the EJB world is to drive message-driven
beans (MDBs). Spring offers a solution to create message-driven POJOs (MDPs) in a way
that does not tie a user to an EJB container. (See <<jms-asynchronousMessageReception>>
for detailed coverage of Spring's MDP support.) As from Spring Framework 4.1, endpoint
methods can be simply annotated using `@JmsListener` see <<jms-annotated>> for more
details.

A message listener container is used to receive messages from a JMS message queue and
drive the `MessageListener` that is injected into it. The listener container is
responsible for all threading of message reception and dispatches into the listener for
processing. A message listener container is the intermediary between an MDP and a
messaging provider, and takes care of registering to receive messages, participating in
transactions, resource acquisition and release, exception conversion and suchlike. This
allows you as an application developer to write the (possibly complex) business logic
associated with receiving a message (and possibly responding to it), and delegates
boilerplate JMS infrastructure concerns to the framework.

There are two standard JMS message listener containers packaged with Spring, each with
its specialised feature set.


[[jms-mdp-simple]]
===== SimpleMessageListenerContainer
This message listener container is the simpler of the two standard flavors. It creates a
fixed number of JMS sessions and consumers at startup, registers the listener using the
standard JMS `MessageConsumer.setMessageListener()` method, and leaves it up the JMS
provider to perform listener callbacks. This variant does not allow for dynamic adaption
to runtime demands or for participation in externally managed transactions.
Compatibility-wise, it stays very close to the spirit of the standalone JMS
specification - but is generally not compatible with Java EE's JMS restrictions.

[NOTE]
====
While `SimpleMessageListenerContainer` does not allow for the participation in externally
managed transactions, it does support native JMS transactions: simply switch the
'sessionTransacted' flag to 'true' or, in the namespace, set the 'acknowledge' attribute
to 'transacted': Exceptions thrown from your listener will lead to a rollback then, with
the message getting redelivered. Alternatively, consider using 'CLIENT_ACKNOWLEDGE' mode
which provides redelivery in case of an exception as well but does not use transacted
Sessions and therefore does not include any other Session operations (such as sending
response messages) in the transaction protocol.
====


[[jms-mdp-default]]
===== DefaultMessageListenerContainer
This message listener container is the one used in most cases. In contrast to
`SimpleMessageListenerContainer`, this container variant allows for dynamic adaptation
to runtime demands and is able to participate in externally managed transactions. Each
received message is registered with an XA transaction when configured with a
`JtaTransactionManager`; so processing may take advantage of XA transaction semantics.
This listener container strikes a good balance between low requirements on the JMS
provider, advanced functionality such as the participation in externally managed
transactions, and compatibility with Java EE environments.

The cache level of the container can be customized. Note that when no caching is enabled,
a new connection and a new session is created for each message reception. Combining this
with a non durable subscription with high loads may lead to message lost. Make sure to
use a proper cache level in such case.

This container also has recoverable capabilities when the broker goes down. By default,
a simple `BackOff` implementation retries every 5 seconds. It is possible to specify
a custom `BackOff` implementation for more fine-grained recovery options, see
`ExponentialBackOff` for an example.

[NOTE]
====
Like its sibling `SimpleMessageListenerContainer`, `DefaultMessageListenerContainer`
supports native JMS transactions and also allows for customizing the acknowledgment mode.
This is strongly recommended over externally managed transactions if feasible for your
scenario: that is, if you can live with occasional duplicate messages in case of the
JVM dying. Custom duplicate message detection steps in your business logic may cover
such situations, e.g. in the form of a business entity existence check or a protocol
table check. Any such arrangements will be significantly more efficient than the
alternative: wrapping your entire processing with an XA transaction (through configuring
your `DefaultMessageListenerContainer` with an `JtaTransactionManager`), covering the
reception of the JMS message as well as the execution of the business logic in your
message listener (including database operations etc).
====


[[jms-tx]]
==== Transaction management
Spring provides a `JmsTransactionManager` that manages transactions for a single JMS
`ConnectionFactory`. This allows JMS applications to leverage the managed transaction
features of Spring as described in <<transaction>>. The `JmsTransactionManager` performs
local resource transactions, binding a JMS Connection/Session pair from the specified
`ConnectionFactory` to the thread. `JmsTemplate` automatically detects such
transactional resources and operates on them accordingly.

In a Java EE environment, the `ConnectionFactory` will pool Connections and Sessions, so
those resources are efficiently reused across transactions. In a standalone environment,
using Spring's `SingleConnectionFactory` will result in a shared JMS `Connection`, with
each transaction having its own independent `Session`. Alternatively, consider the use
of a provider-specific pooling adapter such as ActiveMQ's `PooledConnectionFactory`
class.

`JmsTemplate` can also be used with the `JtaTransactionManager` and an XA-capable JMS
`ConnectionFactory` for performing distributed transactions. Note that this requires the
use of a JTA transaction manager as well as a properly XA-configured ConnectionFactory!
(Check your Java EE server's / JMS provider's documentation.)

Reusing code across a managed and unmanaged transactional environment can be confusing
when using the JMS API to create a `Session` from a `Connection`. This is because the
JMS API has only one factory method to create a `Session` and it requires values for the
transaction and acknowledgment modes. In a managed environment, setting these values is
the responsibility of the environment's transactional infrastructure, so these values
are ignored by the vendor's wrapper to the JMS Connection. When using the `JmsTemplate`
in an unmanaged environment you can specify these values through the use of the
properties `sessionTransacted` and `sessionAcknowledgeMode`. When using a
`PlatformTransactionManager` with `JmsTemplate`, the template will always be given a
transactional JMS `Session`.




[[jms-sending]]
=== Sending a Message

The `JmsTemplate` contains many convenience methods to send a message. There are send
methods that specify the destination using a `javax.jms.Destination` object and those
that specify the destination using a string for use in a JNDI lookup. The send method
that takes no destination argument uses the default destination.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	import javax.jms.ConnectionFactory;
	import javax.jms.JMSException;
	import javax.jms.Message;
	import javax.jms.Queue;
	import javax.jms.Session;

	import org.springframework.jms.core.MessageCreator;
	import org.springframework.jms.core.JmsTemplate;

	public class JmsQueueSender {

		private JmsTemplate jmsTemplate;
		private Queue queue;

		public void setConnectionFactory(ConnectionFactory cf) {
			this.jmsTemplate = new JmsTemplate(cf);
		}

		public void setQueue(Queue queue) {
			this.queue = queue;
		}

		public void simpleSend() {
			this.jmsTemplate.send(this.queue, new MessageCreator() {
				public Message createMessage(Session session) throws JMSException {
					return session.createTextMessage("hello queue world");
				}
			});
		}
	}
----

This example uses the `MessageCreator` callback to create a text message from the
supplied `Session` object. The `JmsTemplate` is constructed by passing a reference to a
`ConnectionFactory`. As an alternative, a zero argument constructor and
`connectionFactory` is provided and can be used for constructing the instance in
JavaBean style (using a BeanFactory or plain Java code). Alternatively, consider
deriving from Spring's `JmsGatewaySupport` convenience base class, which provides
pre-built bean properties for JMS configuration.

The method `send(String destinationName, MessageCreator creator)` lets you send a
message using the string name of the destination. If these names are registered in JNDI,
you should set the `destinationResolver` property of the template to an instance of
`JndiDestinationResolver`.

If you created the `JmsTemplate` and specified a default destination, the
`send(MessageCreator c)` sends a message to that destination.



[[jms-msg-conversion]]
==== Using Message Converters
In order to facilitate the sending of domain model objects, the `JmsTemplate` has
various send methods that take a Java object as an argument for a message's data
content. The overloaded methods `convertAndSend()` and `receiveAndConvert()` in
`JmsTemplate` delegate the conversion process to an instance of the `MessageConverter`
interface. This interface defines a simple contract to convert between Java objects and
JMS messages. The default implementation `SimpleMessageConverter` supports conversion
between `String` and `TextMessage`, `byte[]` and `BytesMesssage`, and `java.util.Map`
and `MapMessage`. By using the converter, you and your application code can focus on the
business object that is being sent or received via JMS and not be concerned with the
details of how it is represented as a JMS message.

The sandbox currently includes a `MapMessageConverter` which uses reflection to convert
between a JavaBean and a `MapMessage`. Other popular implementation choices you might
implement yourself are Converters that use an existing XML marshalling package, such as
JAXB, Castor, XMLBeans, or XStream, to create a `TextMessage` representing the object.

To accommodate the setting of a message's properties, headers, and body that can not be
generically encapsulated inside a converter class, the `MessagePostProcessor` interface
gives you access to the message after it has been converted, but before it is sent. The
example below demonstrates how to modify a message header and a property after a
`java.util.Map` is converted to a message.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public void sendWithConversion() {
		Map map = new HashMap();
		map.put("Name", "Mark");
		map.put("Age", new Integer(47));
		jmsTemplate.convertAndSend("testQueue", map, new MessagePostProcessor() {
			public Message postProcessMessage(Message message) throws JMSException {
				message.setIntProperty("AccountID", 1234);
				message.setJMSCorrelationID("123-00001");
				return message;
			}
		});
	}
----

This results in a message of the form:

[literal]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
MapMessage={
	Header={
		... standard headers ...
		CorrelationID={123-00001}
	}
	Properties={
		AccountID={Integer:1234}
	}
	Fields={
		Name={String:Mark}
		Age={Integer:47}
	}
}
----



[[jms-callbacks]]
==== SessionCallback and ProducerCallback

While the send operations cover many common usage scenarios, there are cases when you
want to perform multiple operations on a JMS `Session` or `MessageProducer`. The
`SessionCallback` and `ProducerCallback` expose the JMS `Session` and `Session` /
`MessageProducer` pair respectively. The `execute()` methods on `JmsTemplate` execute
these callback methods.




[[jms-receiving]]
=== Receiving a message



[[jms-receiving-sync]]
==== Synchronous Reception
While JMS is typically associated with asynchronous processing, it is possible to
consume messages synchronously. The overloaded `receive(..)` methods provide this
functionality. During a synchronous receive, the calling thread blocks until a message
becomes available. This can be a dangerous operation since the calling thread can
potentially be blocked indefinitely. The property `receiveTimeout` specifies how long
the receiver should wait before giving up waiting for a message.



[[jms-asynchronousMessageReception]]
==== Asynchronous Reception - Message-Driven POJOs

[NOTE]
====
Spring also supports annotated-listener endpoints through the use of the `@JmsListener`
annotation and provides an open infrastructure to register endpoints programmatically. This
is by far the most convenient way to setup an asynchronous receiver, see
<<jms-annotated-support>> for more details.
====

In a fashion similar to a Message-Driven Bean (MDB) in the EJB world, the Message-Driven
POJO (MDP) acts as a receiver for JMS messages. The one restriction (but see also below
for the discussion of the `MessageListenerAdapter` class) on an MDP is that it must
implement the `javax.jms.MessageListener` interface. Please also be aware that in the
case where your POJO will be receiving messages on multiple threads, it is important to
ensure that your implementation is thread-safe.

Below is a simple implementation of an MDP:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	import javax.jms.JMSException;
	import javax.jms.Message;
	import javax.jms.MessageListener;
	import javax.jms.TextMessage;

	public class ExampleListener implements MessageListener {

		public void onMessage(Message message) {
			if (message instanceof TextMessage) {
				try {
					System.out.println(((TextMessage) message).getText());
				}
				catch (JMSException ex) {
					throw new RuntimeException(ex);
				}
			}
			else {
				throw new IllegalArgumentException("Message must be of type TextMessage");
			}
		}

	}
----

Once you've implemented your `MessageListener`, it's time to create a message listener
container.

Find below an example of how to define and configure one of the message listener
containers that ships with Spring (in this case the `DefaultMessageListenerContainer`).

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<!-- this is the Message Driven POJO (MDP) -->
	<bean id="messageListener" class="jmsexample.ExampleListener" />

	<!-- and this is the message listener container -->
	<bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
		<property name="destination" ref="destination"/>
		**<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener" />**
	</bean>
----

Please refer to the Spring javadocs of the various message listener containers for a full
description of the features supported by each implementation.



[[jms-receiving-async-session-aware-message-listener]]
==== the SessionAwareMessageListener interface

The `SessionAwareMessageListener` interface is a Spring-specific interface that provides
a similar contract to the JMS `MessageListener` interface, but also provides the message
handling method with access to the JMS `Session` from which the `Message` was received.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.jms.listener;

	public interface SessionAwareMessageListener {

		void onMessage(Message message, Session session) throws JMSException;

	}
----

You can choose to have your MDPs implement this interface (in preference to the standard
JMS `MessageListener` interface) if you want your MDPs to be able to respond to any
received messages (using the `Session` supplied in the `onMessage(Message, Session)`
method). All of the message listener container implementations that ship with Spring
have support for MDPs that implement either the `MessageListener` or
`SessionAwareMessageListener` interface. Classes that implement the
`SessionAwareMessageListener` come with the caveat that they are then tied to Spring
through the interface. The choice of whether or not to use it is left entirely up to you
as an application developer or architect.

Please note that the `'onMessage(..)'` method of the `SessionAwareMessageListener`
interface throws `JMSException`. In contrast to the standard JMS `MessageListener`
interface, when using the `SessionAwareMessageListener` interface, it is the
responsibility of the client code to handle any exceptions thrown.



[[jms-receiving-async-message-listener-adapter]]
==== the MessageListenerAdapter

The `MessageListenerAdapter` class is the final component in Spring's asynchronous
messaging support: in a nutshell, it allows you to expose almost __any__ class as a MDP
(there are of course some constraints).

Consider the following interface definition. Notice that although the interface extends
neither the `MessageListener` nor `SessionAwareMessageListener` interfaces, it can still
be used as a MDP via the use of the `MessageListenerAdapter` class. Notice also how the
various message handling methods are strongly typed according to the __contents__ of the
various `Message` types that they can receive and handle.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface MessageDelegate {

		void handleMessage(String message);

		void handleMessage(Map message);

		void handleMessage(byte[] message);

		void handleMessage(Serializable message);

	}
----

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class DefaultMessageDelegate implements MessageDelegate {
		// implementation elided for clarity...
	}
----

In particular, note how the above implementation of the `MessageDelegate` interface (the
above `DefaultMessageDelegate` class) has __no__ JMS dependencies at all. It truly is a
POJO that we will make into an MDP via the following configuration.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<!-- this is the Message Driven POJO (MDP) -->
	**<bean id="messageListener" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.adapter.MessageListenerAdapter">
		<constructor-arg>
			<bean class="jmsexample.DefaultMessageDelegate"/>
		</constructor-arg>
	</bean>**

	<!-- and this is the message listener container... -->
	<bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
		<property name="destination" ref="destination"/>
		**<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener" />**
	</bean>
----

Below is an example of another MDP that can only handle the receiving of JMS
`TextMessage` messages. Notice how the message handling method is actually called
`'receive'` (the name of the message handling method in a `MessageListenerAdapter`
defaults to `'handleMessage'`), but it is configurable (as you will see below). Notice
also how the `'receive(..)'` method is strongly typed to receive and respond only to JMS
`TextMessage` messages.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface TextMessageDelegate {

		void receive(TextMessage message);

	}
----

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class DefaultTextMessageDelegate implements TextMessageDelegate {
		// implementation elided for clarity...
	}
----

The configuration of the attendant `MessageListenerAdapter` would look like this:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="messageListener" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.adapter.MessageListenerAdapter">
		<constructor-arg>
			<bean class="jmsexample.DefaultTextMessageDelegate"/>
		</constructor-arg>
		<property name="defaultListenerMethod" value="receive"/>
		<!-- we don't want automatic message context extraction -->
		<property name="messageConverter">
			<null/>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

Please note that if the above `'messageListener'` receives a JMS `Message` of a type
other than `TextMessage`, an `IllegalStateException` will be thrown (and subsequently
swallowed). Another of the capabilities of the `MessageListenerAdapter` class is the
ability to automatically send back a response `Message` if a handler method returns a
non-void value. Consider the interface and class:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface ResponsiveTextMessageDelegate {

		// notice the return type...
		String receive(TextMessage message);

	}
----

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class DefaultResponsiveTextMessageDelegate implements ResponsiveTextMessageDelegate {
		// implementation elided for clarity...
	}
----

If the above `DefaultResponsiveTextMessageDelegate` is used in conjunction with a
`MessageListenerAdapter` then any non-null value that is returned from the execution of
the `'receive(..)'` method will (in the default configuration) be converted into a
`TextMessage`. The resulting `TextMessage` will then be sent to the `Destination` (if
one exists) defined in the JMS Reply-To property of the original `Message`, or the
default `Destination` set on the `MessageListenerAdapter` (if one has been configured);
if no `Destination` is found then an `InvalidDestinationException` will be thrown (and
please note that this exception __will not__ be swallowed and __will__ propagate up the
call stack).



[[jms-tx-participation]]
==== Processing messages within transactions
Invoking a message listener within a transaction only requires reconfiguration of the
listener container.

Local resource transactions can simply be activated through the `sessionTransacted` flag
on the listener container definition. Each message listener invocation will then operate
within an active JMS transaction, with message reception rolled back in case of listener
execution failure. Sending a response message (via `SessionAwareMessageListener`) will
be part of the same local transaction, but any other resource operations (such as
database access) will operate independently. This usually requires duplicate message
detection in the listener implementation, covering the case where database processing
has committed but message processing failed to commit.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
		<property name="destination" ref="destination"/>
		<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener"/>
		**<property name="sessionTransacted" value="true"/>**
	</bean>
----

For participating in an externally managed transaction, you will need to configure a
transaction manager and use a listener container which supports externally managed
transactions: typically `DefaultMessageListenerContainer`.

To configure a message listener container for XA transaction participation, you'll want
to configure a `JtaTransactionManager` (which, by default, delegates to the Java EE
server's transaction subsystem). Note that the underlying JMS ConnectionFactory needs to
be XA-capable and properly registered with your JTA transaction coordinator! (Check your
Java EE server's configuration of JNDI resources.) This allows message reception as well
as e.g. database access to be part of the same transaction (with unified commit
semantics, at the expense of XA transaction log overhead).

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager"/>
----

Then you just need to add it to our earlier container configuration. The container will
take care of the rest.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="jmsContainer" class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
		<property name="destination" ref="destination"/>
		<property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener"/>
		**<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager"/>**
	</bean>
----




[[jms-jca-message-endpoint-manager]]
=== Support for JCA Message Endpoints
Beginning with version 2.5, Spring also provides support for a JCA-based
`MessageListener` container. The `JmsMessageEndpointManager` will attempt to
automatically determine the `ActivationSpec` class name from the provider's
`ResourceAdapter` class name. Therefore, it is typically possible to just provide
Spring's generic `JmsActivationSpecConfig` as shown in the following example.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsMessageEndpointManager">
		<property name="resourceAdapter" ref="resourceAdapter"/>
		<property name="activationSpecConfig">
			<bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsActivationSpecConfig">
				<property name="destinationName" value="myQueue"/>
			</bean>
		</property>
		<property name="messageListener" ref="myMessageListener"/>
	</bean>
----

Alternatively, you may set up a `JmsMessageEndpointManager` with a given
`ActivationSpec` object. The `ActivationSpec` object may also come from a JNDI lookup
(using `<jee:jndi-lookup>`).

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean class="org.springframework.jms.listener.endpoint.JmsMessageEndpointManager">
		<property name="resourceAdapter" ref="resourceAdapter"/>
		<property name="activationSpec">
			<bean class="org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQActivationSpec">
				<property name="destination" value="myQueue"/>
				<property name="destinationType" value="javax.jms.Queue"/>
			</bean>
		</property>
		<property name="messageListener" ref="myMessageListener"/>
	</bean>
----

Using Spring's `ResourceAdapterFactoryBean`, the target `ResourceAdapter` may be
configured locally as depicted in the following example.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="resourceAdapter" class="org.springframework.jca.support.ResourceAdapterFactoryBean">
		<property name="resourceAdapter">
			<bean class="org.apache.activemq.ra.ActiveMQResourceAdapter">
				<property name="serverUrl" value="tcp://localhost:61616"/>
			</bean>
		</property>
		<property name="workManager">
			<bean class="org.springframework.jca.work.SimpleTaskWorkManager"/>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

The specified `WorkManager` may also point to an environment-specific thread pool -
typically through `SimpleTaskWorkManager's` "asyncTaskExecutor" property. Consider
defining a shared thread pool for all your `ResourceAdapter` instances if you happen to
use multiple adapters.

In some environments (e.g. WebLogic 9 or above), the entire `ResourceAdapter` object may
be obtained from JNDI instead (using `<jee:jndi-lookup>`). The Spring-based message
listeners can then interact with the server-hosted `ResourceAdapter`, also using the
server's built-in `WorkManager`.

Please consult the JavaDoc for `JmsMessageEndpointManager`, `JmsActivationSpecConfig`,
and `ResourceAdapterFactoryBean` for more details.

Spring also provides a generic JCA message endpoint manager which is not tied to JMS:
`org.springframework.jca.endpoint.GenericMessageEndpointManager`. This component allows
for using any message listener type (e.g. a CCI MessageListener) and any
provider-specific ActivationSpec object. Check out your JCA provider's documentation to
find out about the actual capabilities of your connector, and consult
`GenericMessageEndpointManager`'s JavaDoc for the Spring-specific configuration details.

[NOTE]
====
JCA-based message endpoint management is very analogous to EJB 2.1 Message-Driven Beans;
it uses the same underlying resource provider contract. Like with EJB 2.1 MDBs, any
message listener interface supported by your JCA provider can be used in the Spring
context as well. Spring nevertheless provides explicit 'convenience' support for JMS,
simply because JMS is the most common endpoint API used with the JCA endpoint management
contract.
====



[[jms-annotated]]
=== Annotation-driven listener endpoints
The easiest way to receive a message asynchronously is to use the annotated listener
endpoint infrastructure. In a nutshell, it allows you to expose a method of a managed
bean as a JMS listener endpoint.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
    @Component
    public class MyService {

    	@JmsListener(destination = "myDestination")
    	public void processOrder(String data) { ... }
    }
----

The idea of the example above is that whenever a message is available on the
`javax.jms.Destination` "myDestination", the `processOrder` method is invoked
accordingly (in this case, with the content of the JMS message similarly to
what the <<jms-receiving-async-message-listener-adapter, `MessageListenerAdapter`>>
provides).

The annotated endpoint infrastructure creates a message listener container
behind the scenes for each annotated method, using a `JmsListenerContainerFactory`. Such
container is not registered against the application context but can be easily
located for management purposes using the `JmsListenerEndpointRegistry` bean.

TIP: `@JmsListener` is a _repeatable_ annotation so it is possible to associate several
JMS destinations to the same method by adding additional `@JmsListener` declaration on
it. For pre Java8 use cases, you can use `@JmsListeners`.

[[jms-annotated-support]]
==== Enable listener endpoint annotations

To enable support for `@JmsListener` annotations add `@EnableJms` to one of
your `@Configuration` classes.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Configuration
	@EnableJms
	public class AppConfig {

		@Bean
		public DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory jmsListenerContainerFactory() {
			DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory factory =
					new DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory();
			factory.setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory());
			factory.setDestinationResolver(destinationResolver());
			factory.setConcurrency("3-10");
			return factory;
		}
	}
----

By default, the infrastructure looks for a bean named `jmsListenerContainerFactory`
as the source for the factory to use to create message listener containers. In this
case, and ignoring the JMS infrastructure setup, the `processOrder` method can be
invoked with a core poll size of 3 threads and a maximum pool size of 10 threads.

It is possible to customize the listener container factory to use per annotation or
an explicit default can be configured by implementing the `JmsListenerConfigurer`
interface. The default is only required if at least one endpoint is registered
without a specific container factory. See the javadoc for full details and examples.

If you prefer <<jms-namespace,XML configuration>> use the `<jms:annotation-driven>`
element.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jms:annotation-driven/>

    <bean id="jmsListenerContainerFactory"
            class="org.springframework.jms.config.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory">
        <property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
        <property name="destinationResolver" ref="destinationResolver"/>
        <property name="concurrency" value="3-10"/>
    </bean>
----

[[jms-annotated-programmatic-registration]]
==== Programmatic endpoints registration

`JmsListenerEndpoint` provides a model of an JMS endpoint and is responsible for configuring
the container for that model. The infrastructure allows you to configure endpoints
programmatically in addition to the ones that are detected by the `JmsListener` annotation.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Configuration
	@EnableJms
	public class AppConfig implements JmsListenerConfigurer {

		@Override
		public void configureJmsListeners(JmsListenerEndpointRegistrar registrar) {
			SimpleJmsListenerEndpoint endpoint = new SimpleJmsListenerEndpoint();
			endpoint.setId("myJmsEndpoint");
			endpoint.setDestination("anotherQueue");
			endpoint.setMessageListener(message -> {
				// processing
			});
			registrar.registerEndpoint(endpoint);
		}
	}
----

In the example above, we used `SimpleJmsListenerEndpoint` which provides the actual
`MessageListener` to invoke but you could just as well build your own endpoint variant
describing a custom invocation mechanism.

It should be noted that you could just as well skip the use of `@JmsListener` altogether
and only register your endpoints programmatically through `JmsListenerConfigurer`.

[[jms-annotated-method-signature]]
==== Annotated endpoint method signature

So far, we have been injecting a simple `String` in our endpoint but it can actually
have a very flexible method signature. Let's rewrite it to inject the `Order` with
a custom header:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Component
	public class MyService {

    	@JmsListener(destination = "myDestination")
    	public void processOrder(Order order, @Header("order_type") String orderType) {
        	...
    	}
	}
----

These are the main elements you can inject in JMS listener endpoints:

* The raw `javax.jms.Message` or any of its subclasses (provided of course that it
  matches the incoming message type).
* The `javax.jms.Session` for optional access to the native JMS API e.g. for sending
  a custom reply.
* The `org.springframework.messaging.Message` representing the incoming JMS message.
  Note that this message holds both the custom and the standard headers (as defined
  by `JmsHeaders`).
* `@Header`-annotated method arguments to extract a specific header value, including
  standard JMS headers.
* `@Headers`-annotated argument that must also be assignable to `java.util.Map` for
  getting access to all headers.
* A non-annotated element that is not one of the supported types (i.e. `Message` and
  `Session`) is considered to be the payload. You can make that explicit by annotating
  the parameter with `@Payload`. You can also turn on validation by adding an extra
  `@Valid`.

The ability to inject Spring's `Message` abstraction is particularly useful to benefit
from all the information stored in the transport-specific message without relying on
transport-specific API.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@JmsListener(destination = "myDestination")
	public void processOrder(Message<Order> order) { ... }
----

Handling of method arguments is provided by `DefaultMessageHandlerMethodFactory` which can be
further customized to support additional method arguments. The conversion and validation
support can be customized there as well.

For instance, if we want to make sure our `Order` is valid before processing it, we can
annotate the payload with `@Valid` and configure the necessary validator as follows:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Configuration
	@EnableJms
	public class AppConfig implements JmsListenerConfigurer {

    	@Override
    	public void configureJmsListeners(JmsListenerEndpointRegistrar registrar) {
        	registrar.setMessageHandlerMethodFactory(myJmsHandlerMethodFactory());
    	}

    	@Bean
    	public DefaultMessageHandlerMethodFactory myHandlerMethodFactory() {
        	DefaultMessageHandlerMethodFactory factory = new DefaultMessageHandlerMethodFactory();
        	factory.setValidator(myValidator());
        	return factory;
    	}
	}
----

[[jms-annotated-response]]
==== Response management

The existing support in <<jms-receiving-async-message-listener-adapter,MessageListenerAdapter>>
already allows your method to have a non-`void` return type. When that's the case, the result of
the invocation is encapsulated in a `javax.jms.Message` sent either in the destination specified
in the `JMSReplyTo` header of the original message or in the default destination configured on
the listener. That default destination can now be set using the `@SendTo` annotation of the
messaging abstraction.

Assuming our `processOrder` method should now return an `OrderStatus`, it is possible to write it
as follow to automatically send a response:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@JmsListener(destination = "myDestination")
	@SendTo("status")
	public OrderStatus processOrder(Order order) {
    	// order processing
    	return status;
	}
----

TIP: If you have several `@JmsListener`-annotated methods, you can also place the `@SendTo`
annotation at class-level to share a default reply destination.

If you need to set additional headers in a transport-independent manner, you could return a
`Message` instead, something like:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@JmsListener(destination = "myDestination")
	@SendTo("status")
	public Message<OrderStatus> processOrder(Order order) {
    	// order processing
    	return MessageBuilder
        	    .withPayload(status)
            	.setHeader("code", 1234)
            	.build();
	}
----

If you need to compute the response destination at runtime, you can encapsulate your response
in a `JmsResponse` instance that also provides the destination to use at runtime. The previous
example can be rewritten as follows:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@JmsListener(destination = "myDestination")
	public JmsResponse<Message<OrderStatus>> processOrder(Order order) {
    	// order processing
    	Message<OrderStatus> response = MessageBuilder
        	    .withPayload(status)
            	.setHeader("code", 1234)
            	.build();
		return JmsResponse.forQueue(response, "status");
	}
----



[[jms-namespace]]
=== JMS Namespace Support
Spring provides an XML namespace for simplifying JMS configuration. To use the JMS
namespace elements you will need to reference the JMS schema:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
			xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
			**xmlns:jms="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms"**
			xsi:schemaLocation="
				http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
				**http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms.xsd**">

		<!-- bean definitions here -->

	</beans>
----

The namespace consists of three top-level elements: `<annotation-driven/>`, `<listener-container/>`
and `<jca-listener-container/>`. `<annotation-driven` enables the use of <<jms-annotated,
annotation-driven listener endpoints>>. `<listener-container/>` and `<jca-listener-container/>`
defines shared listener container configuration and may contain `<listener/>` child elements. Here
is an example of a basic configuration for two listeners.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jms:listener-container>

		<jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="orderService" method="placeOrder"/>

		<jms:listener destination="queue.confirmations" ref="confirmationLogger" method="log"/>

	</jms:listener-container>
----

The example above is equivalent to creating two distinct listener container bean
definitions and two distinct `MessageListenerAdapter` bean definitions as demonstrated
in <<jms-receiving-async-message-listener-adapter>>. In addition to the attributes shown
above, the `listener` element may contain several optional ones. The following table
describes all available attributes:

[[jms-namespace-listener-tbl]]
.Attributes of the JMS <listener> element
[cols="1,6"]
|===
| Attribute| Description

| id
| A bean name for the hosting listener container. If not specified, a bean name will be
  automatically generated.

| destination __(required)__
| The destination name for this listener, resolved through the `DestinationResolver`
  strategy.

| ref __(required)__
| The bean name of the handler object.

| method
| The name of the handler method to invoke. If the `ref` points to a `MessageListener`
  or Spring `SessionAwareMessageListener`, this attribute may be omitted.

| response-destination
| The name of the default response destination to send response messages to. This will
  be applied in case of a request message that does not carry a "JMSReplyTo" field. The
  type of this destination will be determined by the listener-container's
  "response-destination-type" attribute. Note: This only applies to a listener method with a
  return value, for which each result object will be converted into a response message.

| subscription
| The name of the durable subscription, if any.

| selector
| An optional message selector for this listener.

| concurrency
| The number of concurrent sessions/consumers to start for this listener. Can either be
  a simple number indicating the maximum number (e.g. "5") or a range indicating the lower
  as well as the upper limit (e.g. "3-5"). Note that a specified minimum is just a hint
  and might be ignored at runtime. Default is the value provided by the container
|===

The `<listener-container/>` element also accepts several optional attributes. This
allows for customization of the various strategies (for example, `taskExecutor` and
`destinationResolver`) as well as basic JMS settings and resource references. Using
these attributes, it is possible to define highly-customized listener containers while
still benefiting from the convenience of the namespace.

Such settings can be automatically exposed as a `JmsListenerContainerFactory` by
specifying the id of the bean to expose through the `factory-id` attribute.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jms:listener-container connection-factory="myConnectionFactory"
			task-executor="myTaskExecutor"
			destination-resolver="myDestinationResolver"
			transaction-manager="myTransactionManager"
			concurrency="10">

		<jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="orderService" method="placeOrder"/>

		<jms:listener destination="queue.confirmations" ref="confirmationLogger" method="log"/>

	</jms:listener-container>
----

The following table describes all available attributes. Consult the class-level javadocs
of the `AbstractMessageListenerContainer` and its concrete subclasses for more details
on the individual properties. The javadocs also provide a discussion of transaction
choices and message redelivery scenarios.

[[jms-namespace-listener-container-tbl]]
.Attributes of the JMS <listener-container> element
[cols="1,6"]
|===
| Attribute| Description

| container-type
| The type of this listener container. Available options are: `default`, `simple`,
  `default102`, or `simple102` (the default value is `'default'`).

| container-class
| A custom listener container implementation class as fully qualified class name.
  Default is Spring's standard `DefaultMessageListenerContainer` or
  `SimpleMessageListenerContainer`, according to the "container-type" attribute.

| factory-id
| Exposes the settings defined by this element as a `JmsListenerContainerFactory`
  with the specified id so that they can be reused with other endpoints.

| connection-factory
| A reference to the JMS `ConnectionFactory` bean (the default bean name is
  `'connectionFactory'`).

| task-executor
| A reference to the Spring `TaskExecutor` for the JMS listener invokers.

| destination-resolver
| A reference to the `DestinationResolver` strategy for resolving JMS `Destinations`.

| message-converter
| A reference to the `MessageConverter` strategy for converting JMS Messages to listener
  method arguments. Default is a `SimpleMessageConverter`.

| error-handler
| A reference to an `ErrorHandler` strategy for handling any uncaught Exceptions that
  may occur during the execution of the `MessageListener`.

| destination-type
| The JMS destination type for this listener: `queue`, `topic`, `durableTopic`, `sharedTopic`
  or `sharedDurableTopic`. This enables potentially the `pubSubDomain`, `subscriptionDurable`
  and `subscriptionShared` properties of the container. The default is `queue` (i.e. disabling
  those 3 properties).

| response-destination-type
| The JMS destination type for responses: "queue", "topic". Default is the value of the
  "destination-type" attribute.

| client-id
| The JMS client id for this listener container. Needs to be specified when using
  durable subscriptions.

| cache
| The cache level for JMS resources: `none`, `connection`, `session`, `consumer` or
  `auto`. By default ( `auto`), the cache level will effectively be "consumer", unless
  an external transaction manager has been specified - in which case the effective
  default will be `none` (assuming Java EE-style transaction management where the given
  ConnectionFactory is an XA-aware pool).

| acknowledge
| The native JMS acknowledge mode: `auto`, `client`, `dups-ok` or `transacted`. A value
  of `transacted` activates a locally transacted `Session`. As an alternative, specify
  the `transaction-manager` attribute described below. Default is `auto`.

| transaction-manager
| A reference to an external `PlatformTransactionManager` (typically an XA-based
  transaction coordinator, e.g. Spring's `JtaTransactionManager`). If not specified,
  native acknowledging will be used (see "acknowledge" attribute).

| concurrency
| The number of concurrent sessions/consumers to start for each listener. Can either be
  a simple number indicating the maximum number (e.g. "5") or a range indicating the
  lower as well as the upper limit (e.g. "3-5"). Note that a specified minimum is just a
  hint and might be ignored at runtime. Default is 1; keep concurrency limited to 1 in
  case of a topic listener or if queue ordering is important; consider raising it for
  general queues.

| prefetch
| The maximum number of messages to load into a single session. Note that raising this
  number might lead to starvation of concurrent consumers!

| receive-timeout
| The timeout to use for receive calls (in milliseconds). The default is `1000` ms (1
  sec); `-1` indicates no timeout at all.

| back-off
| Specify the `BackOff` instance to use to compute the interval between recovery
  attempts. If the `BackOffExecution` implementation returns `BackOffExecution#STOP`,
  the listener container will not further attempt to recover. The `recovery-interval`
  value is ignored when this property is set. The default is a `FixedBackOff` with
  an interval of 5000 ms, that is 5 seconds.

| recovery-interval
| Specify the interval between recovery attempts, in milliseconds. Convenience
  way to create a `FixedBackOff` with the specified interval. For more recovery
  options, consider specifying a BackOff instance instead. The default is 5000 ms,
  that is 5 seconds.

| phase
| The lifecycle phase within which this container should start and stop. The lower the
  value the earlier this container will start and the later it will stop. The default is
  `Integer.MAX_VALUE` meaning the container will start as late as possible and stop as
  soon as possible.
|===

Configuring a JCA-based listener container with the "jms" schema support is very similar.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jms:jca-listener-container resource-adapter="myResourceAdapter"
			destination-resolver="myDestinationResolver"
			transaction-manager="myTransactionManager"
			concurrency="10">

		<jms:listener destination="queue.orders" ref="myMessageListener"/>

	</jms:jca-listener-container>
----

The available configuration options for the JCA variant are described in the following
table:

[[jms-namespace-jca-listener-container-tbl]]
.Attributes of the JMS <jca-listener-container/> element
[cols="1,6"]
|===
| Attribute| Description

| factory-id
| Exposes the settings defined by this element as a `JmsListenerContainerFactory`
  with the specified id so that they can be reused with other endpoints.

| resource-adapter
| A reference to the JCA `ResourceAdapter` bean (the default bean name is
  `'resourceAdapter'`).

| activation-spec-factory
| A reference to the `JmsActivationSpecFactory`. The default is to autodetect the JMS
  provider and its `ActivationSpec` class (see `DefaultJmsActivationSpecFactory`)

| destination-resolver
| A reference to the `DestinationResolver` strategy for resolving JMS `Destinations`.

| message-converter
| A reference to the `MessageConverter` strategy for converting JMS Messages to listener
  method arguments. Default is a `SimpleMessageConverter`.

| destination-type
| The JMS destination type for this listener: `queue`, `topic`, `durableTopic`, `sharedTopic`
  or `sharedDurableTopic`. This enables potentially the `pubSubDomain`, `subscriptionDurable`
  and `subscriptionShared` properties of the container. The default is `queue` (i.e. disabling
  those 3 properties).

| response-destination-type
| The JMS destination type for responses: "queue", "topic". Default is the value of the
  "destination-type" attribute.

| client-id
| The JMS client id for this listener container. Needs to be specified when using
  durable subscriptions.

| acknowledge
| The native JMS acknowledge mode: `auto`, `client`, `dups-ok` or `transacted`. A value
  of `transacted` activates a locally transacted `Session`. As an alternative, specify
  the `transaction-manager` attribute described below. Default is `auto`.

| transaction-manager
| A reference to a Spring `JtaTransactionManager` or a
  `javax.transaction.TransactionManager` for kicking off an XA transaction for each
  incoming message. If not specified, native acknowledging will be used (see the
  "acknowledge" attribute).

| concurrency
| The number of concurrent sessions/consumers to start for each listener. Can either be
  a simple number indicating the maximum number (e.g. "5") or a range indicating the
  lower as well as the upper limit (e.g. "3-5"). Note that a specified minimum is just a
  hint and will typically be ignored at runtime when using a JCA listener container.
  Default is 1.

| prefetch
| The maximum number of messages to load into a single session. Note that raising this
  number might lead to starvation of concurrent consumers!
|===



[[jmx]]
== JMX




[[jmx-introduction]]
=== Introduction
The JMX support in Spring provides you with the features to easily and transparently
integrate your Spring application into a JMX infrastructure.

.JMX?
****
This chapter is not an introduction to JMX... it doesn't try to explain the motivations
of why one might want to use JMX (or indeed what the letters JMX actually stand for). If
you are new to JMX, check out <<jmx-resources>> at the end of this chapter.
****

Specifically, Spring's JMX support provides four core features:

* The automatic registration of __any__ Spring bean as a JMX MBean
* A flexible mechanism for controlling the management interface of your beans
* The declarative exposure of MBeans over remote, JSR-160 connectors
* The simple proxying of both local and remote MBean resources

These features are designed to work without coupling your application components to
either Spring or JMX interfaces and classes. Indeed, for the most part your application
classes need not be aware of either Spring or JMX in order to take advantage of the
Spring JMX features.




[[jmx-exporting]]
=== Exporting your beans to JMX
The core class in Spring's JMX framework is the `MBeanExporter`. This class is
responsible for taking your Spring beans and registering them with a JMX `MBeanServer`.
For example, consider the following class:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.jmx;

	public class JmxTestBean implements IJmxTestBean {

		private String name;
		private int age;
		private boolean isSuperman;

		public int getAge() {
			return age;
		}

		public void setAge(int age) {
			this.age = age;
		}

		public void setName(String name) {
			this.name = name;
		}

		public String getName() {
			return name;
		}

		public int add(int x, int y) {
			return x + y;
		}

		public void dontExposeMe() {
			throw new RuntimeException();
		}
	}
----

To expose the properties and methods of this bean as attributes and operations of an
MBean you simply configure an instance of the `MBeanExporter` class in your
configuration file and pass in the bean as shown below:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>
		<!-- this bean must not be lazily initialized if the exporting is to happen -->
		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter" lazy-init="false">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean1" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
		</bean>
		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>
	</beans>
----

The pertinent bean definition from the above configuration snippet is the `exporter`
bean. The `beans` property tells the `MBeanExporter` exactly which of your beans must be
exported to the JMX `MBeanServer`. In the default configuration, the key of each entry
in the `beans` `Map` is used as the `ObjectName` for the bean referenced by the
corresponding entry value. This behavior can be changed as described in <<jmx-naming>>.

With this configuration the `testBean` bean is exposed as an MBean under the
`ObjectName` `bean:name=testBean1`. By default, all __public__ properties of the bean
are exposed as attributes and all __public__ methods (bar those inherited from the
`Object` class) are exposed as operations.

[NOTE]
====
`MBeanExporter` is a `Lifecycle` bean (see <<beans-factory-lifecycle-processor>>)
and MBeans are exported as late as possible during the application lifecycle by default. It
is possible to configure the `phase` at which the export happens or disable automatic
registration by setting the `autoStartup` flag.
====


[[jmx-exporting-mbeanserver]]
==== Creating an MBeanServer

The above configuration assumes that the application is running in an environment that
has one (and only one) `MBeanServer` already running. In this case, Spring will attempt
to locate the running `MBeanServer` and register your beans with that server (if any).
This behavior is useful when your application is running inside a container such as
Tomcat or IBM WebSphere that has its own `MBeanServer`.

However, this approach is of no use in a standalone environment, or when running inside
a container that does not provide an `MBeanServer`. To address this you can create an
`MBeanServer` instance declaratively by adding an instance of the
`org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerFactoryBean` class to your configuration.
You can also ensure that a specific `MBeanServer` is used by setting the value of the
`MBeanExporter`'s `server` property to the `MBeanServer` value returned by an
`MBeanServerFactoryBean`; for example:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="mbeanServer" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerFactoryBean"/>

		<!--
		this bean needs to be eagerly pre-instantiated in order for the exporting to occur;
		this means that it must not be marked as lazily initialized
		-->
		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean1" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="server" ref="mbeanServer"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

Here an instance of `MBeanServer` is created by the `MBeanServerFactoryBean` and is
supplied to the `MBeanExporter` via the server property. When you supply your own
`MBeanServer` instance, the `MBeanExporter` will not attempt to locate a running
`MBeanServer` and will use the supplied `MBeanServer` instance. For this to work
correctly, you must (of course) have a JMX implementation on your classpath.



[[jmx-mbean-server]]
==== Reusing an existing MBeanServer

If no server is specified, the `MBeanExporter` tries to automatically detect a running
`MBeanServer`. This works in most environment where only one `MBeanServer` instance is
used, however when multiple instances exist, the exporter might pick the wrong server.
In such cases, one should use the `MBeanServer` `agentId` to indicate which instance to
be used:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>
		<bean id="mbeanServer" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerFactoryBean">
			<!-- indicate to first look for a server -->
			<property name="locateExistingServerIfPossible" value="true"/>
			<!-- search for the MBeanServer instance with the given agentId -->
			<property name="agentId" value="MBeanServer_instance_agentId>"/>
		</bean>
		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="server" ref="mbeanServer"/>
			...
		</bean>
	</beans>
----

For platforms/cases where the existing `MBeanServer` has a dynamic (or unknown)
`agentId` which is retrieved through lookup methods, one should use
<<beans-factory-class-static-factory-method,factory-method>>:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>
		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="server">
				<!-- Custom MBeanServerLocator -->
				<bean class="platform.package.MBeanServerLocator" factory-method="locateMBeanServer"/>
			</property>
		</bean>

		<!-- other beans here -->

	</beans>
----



[[jmx-exporting-lazy]]
==== Lazy-initialized MBeans
If you configure a bean with the `MBeanExporter` that is also configured for lazy
initialization, then the `MBeanExporter` will __not__ break this contract and will avoid
instantiating the bean. Instead, it will register a proxy with the `MBeanServer` and
will defer obtaining the bean from the container until the first invocation on the proxy
occurs.



[[jmx-exporting-auto]]
==== Automatic registration of MBeans
Any beans that are exported through the `MBeanExporter` and are already valid MBeans are
registered as-is with the `MBeanServer` without further intervention from Spring. MBeans
can be automatically detected by the `MBeanExporter` by setting the `autodetect`
property to `true`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
		<property name="autodetect" value="true"/>
	</bean>

	<bean name="spring:mbean=true" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.TestDynamicMBean"/>
----

Here, the bean called `spring:mbean=true` is already a valid JMX MBean and will be
automatically registered by Spring. By default, beans that are autodetected for JMX
registration have their bean name used as the `ObjectName`. This behavior can be
overridden as detailed in <<jmx-naming>>.



[[jmx-exporting-registration-behavior]]
==== Controlling the registration behavior
Consider the scenario where a Spring `MBeanExporter` attempts to register an `MBean`
with an `MBeanServer` using the `ObjectName` `'bean:name=testBean1'`. If an `MBean`
instance has already been registered under that same `ObjectName`, the default behavior
is to fail (and throw an `InstanceAlreadyExistsException`).

It is possible to control the behavior of exactly what happens when an `MBean` is
registered with an `MBeanServer`. Spring's JMX support allows for three different
registration behaviors to control the registration behavior when the registration
process finds that an `MBean` has already been registered under the same `ObjectName`;
these registration behaviors are summarized on the following table:

[[jmx-registration-behaviors]]
.Registration Behaviors
[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Registration behavior| Explanation

| `REGISTRATION_FAIL_ON_EXISTING`
| This is the default registration behavior. If an `MBean` instance has already been
  registered under the same `ObjectName`, the `MBean` that is being registered will not
  be registered and an `InstanceAlreadyExistsException` will be thrown. The existing
  `MBean` is unaffected.

| `REGISTRATION_IGNORE_EXISTING`
| If an `MBean` instance has already been registered under the same `ObjectName`, the
  `MBean` that is being registered will __not__ be registered. The existing `MBean` is
  unaffected, and no `Exception` will be thrown. This is useful in settings where
  multiple applications want to share a common `MBean` in a shared `MBeanServer`.

| `REGISTRATION_REPLACE_EXISTING`
| If an `MBean` instance has already been registered under the same `ObjectName`, the
  existing `MBean` that was previously registered will be unregistered and the new
  `MBean` will be registered in its place (the new `MBean` effectively replaces the
  previous instance).
|===

The above values are defined as constants on the `MBeanRegistrationSupport` class (the
`MBeanExporter` class derives from this superclass). If you want to change the default
registration behavior, you simply need to set the value of the
`registrationBehaviorName` property on your `MBeanExporter` definition to one of those
values.

The following example illustrates how to effect a change from the default registration
behavior to the `REGISTRATION_REPLACE_EXISTING` behavior:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean1" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="registrationBehaviorName" value="REGISTRATION_REPLACE_EXISTING"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----




[[jmx-interface]]
=== Controlling the management interface of your beans
In the previous example, you had little control over the management interface of your
bean; __all__ of the __public__ properties and methods of each exported bean was exposed
as JMX attributes and operations respectively. To exercise finer-grained control over
exactly which properties and methods of your exported beans are actually exposed as JMX
attributes and operations, Spring JMX provides a comprehensive and extensible mechanism
for controlling the management interfaces of your beans.



[[jmx-interface-assembler]]
==== the MBeanInfoAssembler Interface

Behind the scenes, the `MBeanExporter` delegates to an implementation of the
`org.springframework.jmx.export.assembler.MBeanInfoAssembler` interface which is
responsible for defining the management interface of each bean that is being exposed.
The default implementation,
`org.springframework.jmx.export.assembler.SimpleReflectiveMBeanInfoAssembler`, simply
defines a management interface that exposes all public properties and methods (as you
saw in the previous examples). Spring provides two additional implementations of the
`MBeanInfoAssembler` interface that allow you to control the generated management
interface using either source-level metadata or any arbitrary interface.



[[jmx-interface-metadata]]
==== Using Source-Level Metadata (Java annotations)
Using the `MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler` you can define the management interfaces for your
beans using source level metadata. The reading of metadata is encapsulated by the
`org.springframework.jmx.export.metadata.JmxAttributeSource` interface. Spring JMX
provides a default implementation which uses Java annotations, namely
`org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.AnnotationJmxAttributeSource`. The
`MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler` __must__ be configured with an implementation instance of
the `JmxAttributeSource` interface for it to function correctly (there is __no__
default).

To mark a bean for export to JMX, you should annotate the bean class with the
`ManagedResource` annotation. Each method you wish to expose as an operation must be
marked with the `ManagedOperation` annotation and each property you wish to expose must
be marked with the `ManagedAttribute` annotation. When marking properties you can omit
either the annotation of the getter or the setter to create a write-only or read-only
attribute respectively.

NOTE: A `ManagedResource` annotated bean must be public as well as the methods exposing
an operation or an attribute.

The example below shows the annotated version of the `JmxTestBean` class that you saw
earlier:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.jmx;

	import org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.ManagedResource;
	import org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.ManagedOperation;
	import org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.ManagedAttribute;

	@ManagedResource(
			objectName="bean:name=testBean4",
			description="My Managed Bean",
			log=true,
			logFile="jmx.log",
			currencyTimeLimit=15,
			persistPolicy="OnUpdate",
			persistPeriod=200,
			persistLocation="foo",
			persistName="bar")
	public class AnnotationTestBean implements IJmxTestBean {

		private String name;
		private int age;

		@ManagedAttribute(description="The Age Attribute", currencyTimeLimit=15)
		public int getAge() {
			return age;
		}

		public void setAge(int age) {
			this.age = age;
		}

		@ManagedAttribute(description="The Name Attribute",
				currencyTimeLimit=20,
				defaultValue="bar",
				persistPolicy="OnUpdate")
		public void setName(String name) {
			this.name = name;
		}

		@ManagedAttribute(defaultValue="foo", persistPeriod=300)
		public String getName() {
			return name;
		}

		@ManagedOperation(description="Add two numbers")
		@ManagedOperationParameters({
			@ManagedOperationParameter(name = "x", description = "The first number"),
			@ManagedOperationParameter(name = "y", description = "The second number")})
		public int add(int x, int y) {
			return x + y;
		}

		public void dontExposeMe() {
			throw new RuntimeException();
		}

	}
----

Here you can see that the `JmxTestBean` class is marked with the `ManagedResource`
annotation and that this `ManagedResource` annotation is configured with a set of
properties. These properties can be used to configure various aspects of the MBean that
is generated by the `MBeanExporter`, and are explained in greater detail later in
section entitled <<jmx-interface-metadata-types>>.

You will also notice that both the `age` and `name` properties are annotated with the
`ManagedAttribute` annotation, but in the case of the `age` property, only the getter is
marked. This will cause both of these properties to be included in the management
interface as attributes, but the `age` attribute will be read-only.

Finally, you will notice that the `add(int, int)` method is marked with the
`ManagedOperation` attribute whereas the `dontExposeMe()` method is not. This will cause
the management interface to contain only one operation, `add(int, int)`, when using the
`MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler`.

The configuration below shows how you configure the `MBeanExporter` to use the
`MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>
		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="assembler" ref="assembler"/>
			<property name="namingStrategy" ref="namingStrategy"/>
			<property name="autodetect" value="true"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="jmxAttributeSource"
				class="org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.AnnotationJmxAttributeSource"/>

		<!-- will create management interface using annotation metadata -->
		<bean id="assembler"
				class="org.springframework.jmx.export.assembler.MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler">
			<property name="attributeSource" ref="jmxAttributeSource"/>
		</bean>

		<!-- will pick up the ObjectName from the annotation -->
		<bean id="namingStrategy"
				class="org.springframework.jmx.export.naming.MetadataNamingStrategy">
			<property name="attributeSource" ref="jmxAttributeSource"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.AnnotationTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>
	</beans>
----

Here you can see that an `MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler` bean has been configured with an
instance of the `AnnotationJmxAttributeSource` class and passed to the `MBeanExporter`
through the assembler property. This is all that is required to take advantage of
metadata-driven management interfaces for your Spring-exposed MBeans.



[[jmx-interface-metadata-types]]
==== Source-Level Metadata Types
The following source level metadata types are available for use in Spring JMX:

[[jmx-metadata-types]]
.Source-Level Metadata Types
|===
| Purpose| Annotation| Annotation Type

| Mark all instances of a `Class` as JMX managed resources
| `@ManagedResource`
| Class

| Mark a method as a JMX operation
| `@ManagedOperation`
| Method

| Mark a getter or setter as one half of a JMX attribute
| `@ManagedAttribute`
| Method (only getters and setters)

| Define descriptions for operation parameters
| `@ManagedOperationParameter` and `@ManagedOperationParameters`
| Method
|===

The following configuration parameters are available for use on these source-level
metadata types:

[[jmx-metadata-parameters]]
.Source-Level Metadata Parameters
[cols="1,3,1"]
|===
| Parameter| Description| Applies to

| `ObjectName`
| Used by `MetadataNamingStrategy` to determine the `ObjectName` of a managed resource
| `ManagedResource`

| `description`
| Sets the friendly description of the resource, attribute or operation
| `ManagedResource`, `ManagedAttribute`, `ManagedOperation`, `ManagedOperationParameter`

| `currencyTimeLimit`
| Sets the value of the `currencyTimeLimit` descriptor field
| `ManagedResource`, `ManagedAttribute`

| `defaultValue`
| Sets the value of the `defaultValue` descriptor field
| `ManagedAttribute`

| `log`
| Sets the value of the `log` descriptor field
| `ManagedResource`

| `logFile`
| Sets the value of the `logFile` descriptor field
| `ManagedResource`

| `persistPolicy`
| Sets the value of the `persistPolicy` descriptor field
| `ManagedResource`

| `persistPeriod`
| Sets the value of the `persistPeriod` descriptor field
| `ManagedResource`

| `persistLocation`
| Sets the value of the `persistLocation` descriptor field
| `ManagedResource`

| `persistName`
| Sets the value of the `persistName` descriptor field
| `ManagedResource`

| `name`
| Sets the display name of an operation parameter
| `ManagedOperationParameter`

| `index`
| Sets the index of an operation parameter
| `ManagedOperationParameter`
|===



[[jmx-interface-autodetect]]
==== the AutodetectCapableMBeanInfoAssembler interface

To simplify configuration even further, Spring introduces the
`AutodetectCapableMBeanInfoAssembler` interface which extends the `MBeanInfoAssembler`
interface to add support for autodetection of MBean resources. If you configure the
`MBeanExporter` with an instance of `AutodetectCapableMBeanInfoAssembler` then it is
allowed to "vote" on the inclusion of beans for exposure to JMX.

Out of the box, the only implementation of the `AutodetectCapableMBeanInfo` interface is
the `MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler` which will vote to include any bean which is marked
with the `ManagedResource` attribute. The default approach in this case is to use the
bean name as the `ObjectName` which results in a configuration like this:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<!-- notice how no 'beans' are explicitly configured here -->
			<property name="autodetect" value="true"/>
			<property name="assembler" ref="assembler"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="assembler" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.assembler.MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler">
			<property name="attributeSource">
				<bean class="org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.AnnotationJmxAttributeSource"/>
			</property>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

Notice that in this configuration no beans are passed to the `MBeanExporter`; however,
the `JmxTestBean` will still be registered since it is marked with the `ManagedResource`
attribute and the `MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler` detects this and votes to include it. The
only problem with this approach is that the name of the `JmxTestBean` now has business
meaning. You can address this issue by changing the default behavior for `ObjectName`
creation as defined in <<jmx-naming>>.



[[jmx-interface-java]]
==== Defining management interfaces using Java interfaces
In addition to the `MetadataMBeanInfoAssembler`, Spring also includes the
`InterfaceBasedMBeanInfoAssembler` which allows you to constrain the methods and
properties that are exposed based on the set of methods defined in a collection of
interfaces.

Although the standard mechanism for exposing MBeans is to use interfaces and a simple
naming scheme, the `InterfaceBasedMBeanInfoAssembler` extends this functionality by
removing the need for naming conventions, allowing you to use more than one interface
and removing the need for your beans to implement the MBean interfaces.

Consider this interface that is used to define a management interface for the
`JmxTestBean` class that you saw earlier:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface IJmxTestBean {

		public int add(int x, int y);

		public long myOperation();

		public int getAge();

		public void setAge(int age);

		public void setName(String name);

		public String getName();

	}
----

This interface defines the methods and properties that will be exposed as operations and
attributes on the JMX MBean. The code below shows how to configure Spring JMX to use
this interface as the definition for the management interface:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean5" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="assembler">
				<bean class="org.springframework.jmx.export.assembler.InterfaceBasedMBeanInfoAssembler">
					<property name="managedInterfaces">
						<value>org.springframework.jmx.IJmxTestBean</value>
					</property>
				</bean>
			</property>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
	  	</bean>

	</beans>
----

Here you can see that the `InterfaceBasedMBeanInfoAssembler` is configured to use the
`IJmxTestBean` interface when constructing the management interface for any bean. It is
important to understand that beans processed by the `InterfaceBasedMBeanInfoAssembler`
are __not__ required to implement the interface used to generate the JMX management
interface.

In the case above, the `IJmxTestBean` interface is used to construct all management
interfaces for all beans. In many cases this is not the desired behavior and you may
want to use different interfaces for different beans. In this case, you can pass
`InterfaceBasedMBeanInfoAssembler` a `Properties` instance via the `interfaceMappings`
property, where the key of each entry is the bean name and the value of each entry is a
comma-separated list of interface names to use for that bean.

If no management interface is specified through either the `managedInterfaces` or
`interfaceMappings` properties, then the `InterfaceBasedMBeanInfoAssembler` will reflect
on the bean and use all of the interfaces implemented by that bean to create the
management interface.



[[jmx-interface-methodnames]]
==== Using MethodNameBasedMBeanInfoAssembler

The `MethodNameBasedMBeanInfoAssembler` allows you to specify a list of method names
that will be exposed to JMX as attributes and operations. The code below shows a sample
configuration for this:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
		<property name="beans">
			<map>
				<entry key="bean:name=testBean5" value-ref="testBean"/>
			</map>
		</property>
		<property name="assembler">
			<bean class="org.springframework.jmx.export.assembler.MethodNameBasedMBeanInfoAssembler">
				<property name="managedMethods">
					<value>add,myOperation,getName,setName,getAge</value>
				</property>
			</bean>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

Here you can see that the methods `add` and `myOperation` will be exposed as JMX
operations and `getName()`, `setName(String)` and `getAge()` will be exposed as the
appropriate half of a JMX attribute. In the code above, the method mappings apply to
beans that are exposed to JMX. To control method exposure on a bean-by-bean basis, use
the `methodMappings` property of `MethodNameMBeanInfoAssembler` to map bean names to
lists of method names.




[[jmx-naming]]
=== Controlling the ObjectNames for your beans

Behind the scenes, the `MBeanExporter` delegates to an implementation of the
`ObjectNamingStrategy` to obtain ``ObjectName``s for each of the beans it is registering.
The default implementation, `KeyNamingStrategy`, will, by default, use the key of the
`beans` `Map` as the `ObjectName`. In addition, the `KeyNamingStrategy` can map the key
of the `beans` `Map` to an entry in a `Properties` file (or files) to resolve the
`ObjectName`. In addition to the `KeyNamingStrategy`, Spring provides two additional
`ObjectNamingStrategy` implementations: the `IdentityNamingStrategy` that builds an
`ObjectName` based on the JVM identity of the bean and the `MetadataNamingStrategy` that
uses source level metadata to obtain the `ObjectName`.



[[jmx-naming-properties]]
==== Reading ObjectNames from Properties

You can configure your own `KeyNamingStrategy` instance and configure it to read
``ObjectName``s from a `Properties` instance rather than use bean key. The
`KeyNamingStrategy` will attempt to locate an entry in the `Properties` with a key
corresponding to the bean key. If no entry is found or if the `Properties` instance is
`null` then the bean key itself is used.

The code below shows a sample configuration for the `KeyNamingStrategy`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="testBean" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="namingStrategy" ref="namingStrategy"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="namingStrategy" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.naming.KeyNamingStrategy">
			<property name="mappings">
				<props>
					<prop key="testBean">bean:name=testBean1</prop>
				</props>
			</property>
			<property name="mappingLocations">
				<value>names1.properties,names2.properties</value>
			</property>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

Here an instance of `KeyNamingStrategy` is configured with a `Properties` instance that
is merged from the `Properties` instance defined by the mapping property and the
properties files located in the paths defined by the mappings property. In this
configuration, the `testBean` bean will be given the `ObjectName` `bean:name=testBean1`
since this is the entry in the `Properties` instance that has a key corresponding to the
bean key.

If no entry in the `Properties` instance can be found then the bean key name is used as
the `ObjectName`.



[[jmx-naming-metadata]]
==== Using the MetadataNamingStrategy

The `MetadataNamingStrategy` uses the `objectName` property of the `ManagedResource`
attribute on each bean to create the `ObjectName`. The code below shows the
configuration for the `MetadataNamingStrategy`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="testBean" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="namingStrategy" ref="namingStrategy"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="namingStrategy" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.naming.MetadataNamingStrategy">
			<property name="attributeSource" ref="attributeSource"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="attributeSource"
				class="org.springframework.jmx.export.annotation.AnnotationJmxAttributeSource"/>

	</beans>
----

If no `objectName` has been provided for the `ManagedResource` attribute, then an
`ObjectName` will be created with the following
format:__[fully-qualified-package-name]:type=[short-classname],name=[bean-name]__. For
example, the generated `ObjectName` for the following bean would be:
__com.foo:type=MyClass,name=myBean__.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="myBean" class="com.foo.MyClass"/>
----



[[jmx-context-mbeanexport]]
==== Configuring annotation based MBean export
If you prefer using <<jmx-interface-metadata,the annotation based approach>> to define
your management interfaces, then a convenience subclass of `MBeanExporter` is available:
`AnnotationMBeanExporter`. When defining an instance of this subclass, the
`namingStrategy`, `assembler`, and `attributeSource` configuration is no longer needed,
since it will always use standard Java annotation-based metadata (autodetection is
always enabled as well). In fact, rather than defining an `MBeanExporter` bean, an even
simpler syntax is supported by the `@EnableMBeanExport` `@Configuration` annotation.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Configuration
	@EnableMBeanExport
	public class AppConfig {

	}
----

If you prefer XML based configuration the `'context:mbean-export'` element serves the
same purpose.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<context:mbean-export/>
----

You can provide a reference to a particular MBean `server` if necessary, and the
`defaultDomain` attribute (a property of `AnnotationMBeanExporter`) accepts an alternate
value for the generated MBean `ObjectNames`' domains. This would be used in place of the
fully qualified package name as described in the previous section on
<<jmx-naming-metadata, MetadataNamingStrategy>>.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@EnableMBeanExport(server="myMBeanServer", defaultDomain="myDomain")
	@Configuration
	ContextConfiguration {

	}
----

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<context:mbean-export server="myMBeanServer" default-domain="myDomain"/>
----

[NOTE]
====
Do not use interface-based AOP proxies in combination with autodetection of JMX
annotations in your bean classes. Interface-based proxies 'hide' the target class, which
also hides the JMX managed resource annotations. Hence, use target-class proxies in that
case: through setting the 'proxy-target-class' flag on `<aop:config/>`,
`<tx:annotation-driven/>`, etc. Otherwise, your JMX beans might be silently ignored at
startup...
====




[[jmx-jsr160]]
=== JSR-160 Connectors
For remote access, Spring JMX module offers two `FactoryBean` implementations inside the
`org.springframework.jmx.support` package for creating both server- and client-side
connectors.



[[jmx-jsr160-server]]
==== Server-side Connectors
To have Spring JMX create, start and expose a JSR-160 `JMXConnectorServer` use the
following configuration:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="serverConnector" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.ConnectorServerFactoryBean"/>
----

By default `ConnectorServerFactoryBean` creates a `JMXConnectorServer` bound to
`"service:jmx:jmxmp://localhost:9875"`. The `serverConnector` bean thus exposes the
local `MBeanServer` to clients through the JMXMP protocol on localhost, port 9875. Note
that the JMXMP protocol is marked as optional by the JSR 160 specification: currently,
the main open-source JMX implementation, MX4J, and the one provided with the JDK
do __not__ support JMXMP.

To specify another URL and register the `JMXConnectorServer` itself with the
`MBeanServer` use the `serviceUrl` and `ObjectName` properties respectively:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="serverConnector"
			class="org.springframework.jmx.support.ConnectorServerFactoryBean">
		<property name="objectName" value="connector:name=rmi"/>
		<property name="serviceUrl"
				value="service:jmx:rmi://localhost/jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/myconnector"/>
	</bean>
----

If the `ObjectName` property is set Spring will automatically register your connector
with the `MBeanServer` under that `ObjectName`. The example below shows the full set of
parameters which you can pass to the `ConnectorServerFactoryBean` when creating a
JMXConnector:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="serverConnector"
			class="org.springframework.jmx.support.ConnectorServerFactoryBean">
		<property name="objectName" value="connector:name=iiop"/>
		<property name="serviceUrl"
			value="service:jmx:iiop://localhost/jndi/iiop://localhost:900/myconnector"/>
		<property name="threaded" value="true"/>
		<property name="daemon" value="true"/>
		<property name="environment">
			<map>
				<entry key="someKey" value="someValue"/>
			</map>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

Note that when using a RMI-based connector you need the lookup service (tnameserv or
rmiregistry) to be started in order for the name registration to complete. If you are
using Spring to export remote services for you via RMI, then Spring will already have
constructed an RMI registry. If not, you can easily start a registry using the following
snippet of configuration:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="registry" class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiRegistryFactoryBean">
		<property name="port" value="1099"/>
	</bean>
----



[[jmx-jsr160-client]]
==== Client-side Connectors
To create an `MBeanServerConnection` to a remote JSR-160 enabled `MBeanServer` use the
`MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean` as shown below:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="clientConnector" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean">
		<property name="serviceUrl" value="service:jmx:rmi://localhost/jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/jmxrmi"/>
	</bean>
----



[[jmx-jsr160-protocols]]
==== JMX over Burlap/Hessian/SOAP
JSR-160 permits extensions to the way in which communication is done between the client
and the server. The examples above are using the mandatory RMI-based implementation
required by the JSR-160 specification (IIOP and JRMP) and the (optional) JMXMP. By using
other providers or JMX implementations (such as http://mx4j.sourceforge.net[MX4J]) you
can take advantage of protocols like SOAP, Hessian, Burlap over simple HTTP or SSL and
others:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="serverConnector" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.ConnectorServerFactoryBean">
		<property name="objectName" value="connector:name=burlap"/>
		<property name="serviceUrl" value="service:jmx:burlap://localhost:9874"/>
	</bean>
----

In the case of the above example, MX4J 3.0.0 was used; see the official MX4J
documentation for more information.




[[jmx-proxy]]
=== Accessing MBeans via Proxies
Spring JMX allows you to create proxies that re-route calls to MBeans registered in a
local or remote `MBeanServer`. These proxies provide you with a standard Java interface
through which you can interact with your MBeans. The code below shows how to configure a
proxy for an MBean running in a local `MBeanServer`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="proxy" class="org.springframework.jmx.access.MBeanProxyFactoryBean">
		<property name="objectName" value="bean:name=testBean"/>
		<property name="proxyInterface" value="org.springframework.jmx.IJmxTestBean"/>
	</bean>
----

Here you can see that a proxy is created for the MBean registered under the
`ObjectName`: `bean:name=testBean`. The set of interfaces that the proxy will implement
is controlled by the `proxyInterfaces` property and the rules for mapping methods and
properties on these interfaces to operations and attributes on the MBean are the same
rules used by the `InterfaceBasedMBeanInfoAssembler`.

The `MBeanProxyFactoryBean` can create a proxy to any MBean that is accessible via an
`MBeanServerConnection`. By default, the local `MBeanServer` is located and used, but
you can override this and provide an `MBeanServerConnection` pointing to a remote
`MBeanServer` to cater for proxies pointing to remote MBeans:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="clientConnector"
			class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean">
		<property name="serviceUrl" value="service:jmx:rmi://remotehost:9875"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="proxy" class="org.springframework.jmx.access.MBeanProxyFactoryBean">
		<property name="objectName" value="bean:name=testBean"/>
		<property name="proxyInterface" value="org.springframework.jmx.IJmxTestBean"/>
		<property name="server" ref="clientConnector"/>
	</bean>
----

Here you can see that we create an `MBeanServerConnection` pointing to a remote machine
using the `MBeanServerConnectionFactoryBean`. This `MBeanServerConnection` is then
passed to the `MBeanProxyFactoryBean` via the `server` property. The proxy that is
created will forward all invocations to the `MBeanServer` via this
`MBeanServerConnection`.




[[jmx-notifications]]
=== Notifications
Spring's JMX offering includes comprehensive support for JMX notifications.



[[jmx-notifications-listeners]]
==== Registering Listeners for Notifications
Spring's JMX support makes it very easy to register any number of
`NotificationListeners` with any number of MBeans (this includes MBeans exported by
Spring's `MBeanExporter` and MBeans registered via some other mechanism). By way of an
example, consider the scenario where one would like to be informed (via a
`Notification`) each and every time an attribute of a target MBean changes.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package com.example;

	import javax.management.AttributeChangeNotification;
	import javax.management.Notification;
	import javax.management.NotificationFilter;
	import javax.management.NotificationListener;

	public class ConsoleLoggingNotificationListener
			implements NotificationListener, NotificationFilter {

		public void handleNotification(Notification notification, Object handback) {
			System.out.println(notification);
			System.out.println(handback);
		}

		public boolean isNotificationEnabled(Notification notification) {
			return AttributeChangeNotification.class.isAssignableFrom(notification.getClass());
		}

	}
----

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean1" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="notificationListenerMappings">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean1">
						<bean class="com.example.ConsoleLoggingNotificationListener"/>
					</entry>
				</map>
			</property>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

With the above configuration in place, every time a JMX `Notification` is broadcast from
the target MBean ( `bean:name=testBean1`), the `ConsoleLoggingNotificationListener` bean
that was registered as a listener via the `notificationListenerMappings` property will
be notified. The `ConsoleLoggingNotificationListener` bean can then take whatever action
it deems appropriate in response to the `Notification`.

You can also use straight bean names as the link between exported beans and listeners:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean1" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="notificationListenerMappings">
				<map>
					<entry key="__testBean__">
						<bean class="com.example.ConsoleLoggingNotificationListener"/>
					</entry>
				</map>
			</property>
		</bean>

		<bean id="__testBean__" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

If one wants to register a single `NotificationListener` instance for all of the beans
that the enclosing `MBeanExporter` is exporting, one can use the special wildcard `'{asterisk}'`
(sans quotes) as the key for an entry in the `notificationListenerMappings` property
map; for example:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<property name="notificationListenerMappings">
		<map>
			<entry key="*">
				<bean class="com.example.ConsoleLoggingNotificationListener"/>
			</entry>
		</map>
	</property>
----

If one needs to do the inverse (that is, register a number of distinct listeners against
an MBean), then one has to use the `notificationListeners` list property instead (and in
preference to the `notificationListenerMappings` property). This time, instead of
configuring simply a `NotificationListener` for a single MBean, one configures
`NotificationListenerBean` instances... a `NotificationListenerBean` encapsulates a
`NotificationListener` and the `ObjectName` (or `ObjectNames`) that it is to be
registered against in an `MBeanServer`. The `NotificationListenerBean` also encapsulates
a number of other properties such as a `NotificationFilter` and an arbitrary handback
object that can be used in advanced JMX notification scenarios.

The configuration when using `NotificationListenerBean` instances is not wildly
different to what was presented previously:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean1" value-ref="testBean"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="notificationListeners">
				<list>
					<bean class="org.springframework.jmx.export.NotificationListenerBean">
						<constructor-arg>
							<bean class="com.example.ConsoleLoggingNotificationListener"/>
						</constructor-arg>
						<property name="mappedObjectNames">
							<list>
								<value>bean:name=testBean1</value>
							</list>
						</property>
					</bean>
				</list>
			</property>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

The above example is equivalent to the first notification example. Lets assume then that
we want to be given a handback object every time a `Notification` is raised, and that
additionally we want to filter out extraneous `Notifications` by supplying a
`NotificationFilter`. (For a full discussion of just what a handback object is, and
indeed what a `NotificationFilter` is, please do consult that section of the JMX
specification (1.2) entitled 'The JMX Notification Model'.)

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<bean id="exporter" class="org.springframework.jmx.export.MBeanExporter">
			<property name="beans">
				<map>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean1" value-ref="testBean1"/>
					<entry key="bean:name=testBean2" value-ref="testBean2"/>
				</map>
			</property>
			<property name="notificationListeners">
				<list>
					<bean class="org.springframework.jmx.export.NotificationListenerBean">
						<constructor-arg ref="customerNotificationListener"/>
						<property name="mappedObjectNames">
							<list>
								<!-- handles notifications from two distinct MBeans -->
								<value>bean:name=testBean1</value>
								<value>bean:name=testBean2</value>
							</list>
						</property>
						<property name="handback">
							<bean class="java.lang.String">
								<constructor-arg value="This could be anything..."/>
							</bean>
						</property>
						<property name="notificationFilter" ref="customerNotificationListener"/>
					</bean>
				</list>
			</property>
		</bean>

		<!-- implements both the NotificationListener and NotificationFilter interfaces -->
		<bean id="customerNotificationListener" class="com.example.ConsoleLoggingNotificationListener"/>

		<bean id="testBean1" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="100"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="testBean2" class="org.springframework.jmx.JmxTestBean">
			<property name="name" value="ANOTHER TEST"/>
			<property name="age" value="200"/>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----



[[jmx-notifications-publishing]]
==== Publishing Notifications
Spring provides support not just for registering to receive `Notifications`, but also
for publishing `Notifications`.

[NOTE]
====
Please note that this section is really only relevant to Spring managed beans that have
been exposed as MBeans via an `MBeanExporter`; any existing, user-defined MBeans should
use the standard JMX APIs for notification publication.
====

The key interface in Spring's JMX notification publication support is the
`NotificationPublisher` interface (defined in the
`org.springframework.jmx.export.notification` package). Any bean that is going to be
exported as an MBean via an `MBeanExporter` instance can implement the related
`NotificationPublisherAware` interface to gain access to a `NotificationPublisher`
instance. The `NotificationPublisherAware` interface simply supplies an instance of a
`NotificationPublisher` to the implementing bean via a simple setter method, which the
bean can then use to publish `Notifications`.

As stated in the javadocs of the `NotificationPublisher` class, managed beans that are
publishing events via the `NotificationPublisher` mechanism are __not__ responsible for
the state management of any notification listeners and the like ... Spring's JMX support
will take care of handling all the JMX infrastructure issues. All one need do as an
application developer is implement the `NotificationPublisherAware` interface and start
publishing events using the supplied `NotificationPublisher` instance. Note that the
`NotificationPublisher` will be set __after__ the managed bean has been registered with
an `MBeanServer`.

Using a `NotificationPublisher` instance is quite straightforward... one simply creates
a JMX `Notification` instance (or an instance of an appropriate `Notification`
subclass), populates the notification with the data pertinent to the event that is to be
published, and one then invokes the `sendNotification(Notification)` on the
`NotificationPublisher` instance, passing in the `Notification`.

Find below a simple example... in this scenario, exported instances of the `JmxTestBean`
are going to publish a `NotificationEvent` every time the `add(int, int)` operation is
invoked.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.jmx;

	import org.springframework.jmx.export.notification.NotificationPublisherAware;
	import org.springframework.jmx.export.notification.NotificationPublisher;
	import javax.management.Notification;

	public class JmxTestBean implements IJmxTestBean, NotificationPublisherAware {

		private String name;
		private int age;
		private boolean isSuperman;
		private NotificationPublisher publisher;

		// other getters and setters omitted for clarity

		public int add(int x, int y) {
			int answer = x + y;
			this.publisher.sendNotification(new Notification("add", this, 0));
			return answer;
		}

		public void dontExposeMe() {
			throw new RuntimeException();
		}

		public void setNotificationPublisher(NotificationPublisher notificationPublisher) {
			this.publisher = notificationPublisher;
		}

	}
----

The `NotificationPublisher` interface and the machinery to get it all working is one of
the nicer features of Spring's JMX support. It does however come with the price tag of
coupling your classes to both Spring and JMX; as always, the advice here is to be
pragmatic... if you need the functionality offered by the `NotificationPublisher` and
you can accept the coupling to both Spring and JMX, then do so.




[[jmx-resources]]
=== Further Resources
This section contains links to further resources about JMX.

* The http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/javamanagement-140525.html[JMX
homepage] at Oracle
* The http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr003/index3.html[JMX
  specification] (JSR-000003)
* The http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr160/index.html[JMX Remote API
  specification] (JSR-000160)
* The http://mx4j.sourceforge.net/[MX4J homepage] (an Open Source implementation of
  various JMX specs)



[[cci]]
== JCA CCI




[[cci-introduction]]
=== Introduction
Java EE provides a specification to standardize access to enterprise information systems
(EIS): the JCA (Java EE Connector Architecture). This specification is divided into
several different parts:

* SPI (Service provider interfaces) that the connector provider must implement. These
  interfaces constitute a resource adapter which can be deployed on a Java EE
  application server. In such a scenario, the server manages connection pooling,
  transaction and security (managed mode). The application server is also responsible
  for managing the configuration, which is held outside the client application. A
  connector can be used without an application server as well; in this case, the
  application must configure it directly (non-managed mode).
* CCI (Common Client Interface) that an application can use to interact with the
  connector and thus communicate with an EIS. An API for local transaction demarcation
  is provided as well.

The aim of the Spring CCI support is to provide classes to access a CCI connector in
typical Spring style, leveraging the Spring Framework's general resource and transaction
management facilities.

[NOTE]
====
The client side of connectors doesn't alway use CCI. Some connectors expose their own
APIs, only providing JCA resource adapter to use the system contracts of a Java EE
container (connection pooling, global transactions, security). Spring does not offer
special support for such connector-specific APIs.
====




[[cci-config]]
=== Configuring CCI



[[cci-config-connector]]
==== Connector configuration
The base resource to use JCA CCI is the `ConnectionFactory` interface. The connector
used must provide an implementation of this interface.

To use your connector, you can deploy it on your application server and fetch the
`ConnectionFactory` from the server's JNDI environment (managed mode). The connector
must be packaged as a RAR file (resource adapter archive) and contain a `ra.xml` file to
describe its deployment characteristics. The actual name of the resource is specified
when you deploy it. To access it within Spring, simply use Spring's
`JndiObjectFactoryBean` / `<jee:jndi-lookup>` fetch the factory by its JNDI name.

Another way to use a connector is to embed it in your application (non-managed mode),
not using an application server to deploy and configure it. Spring offers the
possibility to configure a connector as a bean, through a provided `FactoryBean` (
`LocalConnectionFactoryBean`). In this manner, you only need the connector library in
the classpath (no RAR file and no `ra.xml` descriptor needed). The library must be
extracted from the connector's RAR file, if necessary.

Once you have got access to your `ConnectionFactory` instance, you can inject it into
your components. These components can either be coded against the plain CCI API or
leverage Spring's support classes for CCI access (e.g. `CciTemplate`).

[NOTE]
====
When you use a connector in non-managed mode, you can't use global transactions because
the resource is never enlisted / delisted in the current global transaction of the
current thread. The resource is simply not aware of any global Java EE transactions that
might be running.
====



[[cci-config-connectionfactory]]
==== ConnectionFactory configuration in Spring

In order to make connections to the EIS, you need to obtain a `ConnectionFactory` from
the application server if you are in a managed mode, or directly from Spring if you are
in a non-managed mode.

In a managed mode, you access a `ConnectionFactory` from JNDI; its properties will be
configured in the application server.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jee:jndi-lookup id="eciConnectionFactory" jndi-name="eis/cicseci"/>
----

In non-managed mode, you must configure the `ConnectionFactory` you want to use in the
configuration of Spring as a JavaBean. The `LocalConnectionFactoryBean` class offers
this setup style, passing in the `ManagedConnectionFactory` implementation of your
connector, exposing the application-level CCI `ConnectionFactory`.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="eciManagedConnectionFactory" class="com.ibm.connector2.cics.ECIManagedConnectionFactory">
		<property name="serverName" value="TXSERIES"/>
		<property name="connectionURL" value="tcp://localhost/"/>
		<property name="portNumber" value="2006"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="eciConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jca.support.LocalConnectionFactoryBean">
		<property name="managedConnectionFactory" ref="eciManagedConnectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----

[NOTE]
====
You can't directly instantiate a specific `ConnectionFactory`. You need to go through
the corresponding implementation of the `ManagedConnectionFactory` interface for your
connector. This interface is part of the JCA SPI specification.
====



[[cci-config-cci-connections]]
==== Configuring CCI connections
JCA CCI allow the developer to configure the connections to the EIS using the
`ConnectionSpec` implementation of your connector. In order to configure its properties,
you need to wrap the target connection factory with a dedicated adapter,
`ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter`. So, the dedicated `ConnectionSpec` can be
configured with the property `connectionSpec` (as an inner bean).

This property is not mandatory because the CCI `ConnectionFactory` interface defines two
different methods to obtain a CCI connection. Some of the `ConnectionSpec` properties
can often be configured in the application server (in managed mode) or on the
corresponding local `ManagedConnectionFactory` implementation.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface ConnectionFactory implements Serializable, Referenceable {
		...
		Connection getConnection() throws ResourceException;
		Connection getConnection(ConnectionSpec connectionSpec) throws ResourceException;
		...
	}
----

Spring provides a `ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter` that allows for specifying a
`ConnectionSpec` instance to use for all operations on a given factory. If the adapter's
`connectionSpec` property is specified, the adapter uses the `getConnection` variant
with the `ConnectionSpec` argument, otherwise the variant without argument.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="managedConnectionFactory"
			class="com.sun.connector.cciblackbox.CciLocalTxManagedConnectionFactory">
		<property name="connectionURL" value="jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001"/>
		<property name="driverName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="targetConnectionFactory"
			class="org.springframework.jca.support.LocalConnectionFactoryBean">
		<property name="managedConnectionFactory" ref="managedConnectionFactory"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="connectionFactory"
			class="org.springframework.jca.cci.connection.ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter">
		<property name="targetConnectionFactory" ref="targetConnectionFactory"/>
		<property name="connectionSpec">
			<bean class="com.sun.connector.cciblackbox.CciConnectionSpec">
				<property name="user" value="sa"/>
				<property name="password" value=""/>
			</bean>
		</property>
	</bean>
----



[[cci-config-single-connection]]
==== Using a single CCI connection
If you want to use a single CCI connection, Spring provides a further
`ConnectionFactory` adapter to manage this. The `SingleConnectionFactory` adapter class
will open a single connection lazily and close it when this bean is destroyed at
application shutdown. This class will expose special `Connection` proxies that behave
accordingly, all sharing the same underlying physical connection.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="eciManagedConnectionFactory"
			class="com.ibm.connector2.cics.ECIManagedConnectionFactory">
		<property name="serverName" value="TEST"/>
		<property name="connectionURL" value="tcp://localhost/"/>
		<property name="portNumber" value="2006"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="targetEciConnectionFactory"
			class="org.springframework.jca.support.LocalConnectionFactoryBean">
		<property name="managedConnectionFactory" ref="eciManagedConnectionFactory"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="eciConnectionFactory"
			class="org.springframework.jca.cci.connection.SingleConnectionFactory">
		<property name="targetConnectionFactory" ref="targetEciConnectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----

[NOTE]
====
This `ConnectionFactory` adapter cannot directly be configured with a `ConnectionSpec`.
Use an intermediary `ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter` that the
`SingleConnectionFactory` talks to if you require a single connection for a specific
`ConnectionSpec`.
====




[[cci-using]]
=== Using Spring's CCI access support



[[cci-record-creator]]
==== Record conversion
One of the aims of the JCA CCI support is to provide convenient facilities for
manipulating CCI records. The developer can specify the strategy to create records and
extract datas from records, for use with Spring's `CciTemplate`. The following
interfaces will configure the strategy to use input and output records if you don't want
to work with records directly in your application.

In order to create an input `Record`, the developer can use a dedicated implementation
of the `RecordCreator` interface.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface RecordCreator {

		Record createRecord(RecordFactory recordFactory) throws ResourceException, DataAccessException;

	}
----

As you can see, the `createRecord(..)` method receives a `RecordFactory` instance as
parameter, which corresponds to the `RecordFactory` of the `ConnectionFactory` used.
This reference can be used to create `IndexedRecord` or `MappedRecord` instances. The
following sample shows how to use the `RecordCreator` interface and indexed/mapped
records.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class MyRecordCreator implements RecordCreator {

		public Record createRecord(RecordFactory recordFactory) throws ResourceException {
			IndexedRecord input = recordFactory.createIndexedRecord("input");
			input.add(new Integer(id));
			return input;
		}

	}
----

An output `Record` can be used to receive data back from the EIS. Hence, a specific
implementation of the `RecordExtractor` interface can be passed to Spring's
`CciTemplate` for extracting data from the output `Record`.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface RecordExtractor {

		Object extractData(Record record) throws ResourceException, SQLException, DataAccessException;

	}
----

The following sample shows how to use the `RecordExtractor` interface.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class MyRecordExtractor implements RecordExtractor {

		public Object extractData(Record record) throws ResourceException {
			CommAreaRecord commAreaRecord = (CommAreaRecord) record;
			String str = new String(commAreaRecord.toByteArray());
			String field1 = string.substring(0,6);
			String field2 = string.substring(6,1);
			return new OutputObject(Long.parseLong(field1), field2);
		}

	}
----



[[cci-using-template]]
==== the CciTemplate

The `CciTemplate` is the central class of the core CCI support package (
`org.springframework.jca.cci.core`). It simplifies the use of CCI since it handles the
creation and release of resources. This helps to avoid common errors like forgetting to
always close the connection. It cares for the lifecycle of connection and interaction
objects, letting application code focus on generating input records from application
data and extracting application data from output records.

The JCA CCI specification defines two distinct methods to call operations on an EIS. The
CCI `Interaction` interface provides two execute method signatures:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface javax.resource.cci.Interaction {

		...

		boolean execute(InteractionSpec spec, Record input, Record output) throws ResourceException;

		Record execute(InteractionSpec spec, Record input) throws ResourceException;

		...

	}
----

Depending on the template method called, `CciTemplate` will know which `execute` method
to call on the interaction. In any case, a correctly initialized `InteractionSpec`
instance is mandatory.

`CciTemplate.execute(..)` can be used in two ways:

* With direct `Record` arguments. In this case, you simply need to pass the CCI input
  record in, and the returned object be the corresponding CCI output record.
* With application objects, using record mapping. In this case, you need to provide
  corresponding `RecordCreator` and `RecordExtractor` instances.

With the first approach, the following methods of the template will be used. These
methods directly correspond to those on the `Interaction` interface.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class CciTemplate implements CciOperations {

		public Record execute(InteractionSpec spec, Record inputRecord)
				throws DataAccessException { ... }

		public void execute(InteractionSpec spec, Record inputRecord, Record outputRecord)
				throws DataAccessException { ... }

	}
----

With the second approach, we need to specify the record creation and record extraction
strategies as arguments. The interfaces used are those describe in the previous section
on record conversion. The corresponding `CciTemplate` methods are the following:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class CciTemplate implements CciOperations {

		public Record execute(InteractionSpec spec,
				RecordCreator inputCreator) throws DataAccessException {
			// ...
		}

		public Object execute(InteractionSpec spec, Record inputRecord,
				RecordExtractor outputExtractor) throws DataAccessException {
			// ...
		}

		public Object execute(InteractionSpec spec, RecordCreator creator,
				RecordExtractor extractor) throws DataAccessException {
			// ...
		}

	}
----

Unless the `outputRecordCreator` property is set on the template (see the following
section), every method will call the corresponding `execute` method of the CCI
`Interaction` with two parameters: `InteractionSpec` and input `Record`, receiving an
output `Record` as return value.

`CciTemplate` also provides methods to create `IndexRecord` and `MappedRecord` outside a
`RecordCreator` implementation, through its `createIndexRecord(..)` and
`createMappedRecord(..)` methods. This can be used within DAO implementations to create
`Record` instances to pass into corresponding `CciTemplate.execute(..)` methods.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class CciTemplate implements CciOperations {

		public IndexedRecord createIndexedRecord(String name) throws DataAccessException { ... }

		public MappedRecord createMappedRecord(String name) throws DataAccessException { ... }

	}
----



[[cci-using-dao]]
==== DAO support
Spring's CCI support provides a abstract class for DAOs, supporting injection of a
`ConnectionFactory` or a `CciTemplate` instances. The name of the class is
`CciDaoSupport`: It provides simple `setConnectionFactory` and `setCciTemplate` methods.
Internally, this class will create a `CciTemplate` instance for a passed-in
`ConnectionFactory`, exposing it to concrete data access implementations in subclasses.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public abstract class CciDaoSupport {

		public void setConnectionFactory(ConnectionFactory connectionFactory) {
			// ...
		}

		public ConnectionFactory getConnectionFactory() {
			// ...
		}

		public void setCciTemplate(CciTemplate cciTemplate) {
			// ...
		}

		public CciTemplate getCciTemplate() {
			// ...
		}

	}
----



[[automatic-output-generation]]
==== Automatic output record generation
If the connector used only supports the `Interaction.execute(..)` method with input and
output records as parameters (that is, it requires the desired output record to be
passed in instead of returning an appropriate output record), you can set the
`outputRecordCreator` property of the `CciTemplate` to automatically generate an output
record to be filled by the JCA connector when the response is received. This record will
be then returned to the caller of the template.

This property simply holds an implementation of the `RecordCreator` interface, used for
that purpose. The `RecordCreator` interface has already been discussed in
<<cci-record-creator>>. The `outputRecordCreator` property must be directly specified on
the `CciTemplate`. This could be done in the application code like so:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	cciTemplate.setOutputRecordCreator(new EciOutputRecordCreator());
----

Or (recommended) in the Spring configuration, if the `CciTemplate` is configured as a
dedicated bean instance:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="eciOutputRecordCreator" class="eci.EciOutputRecordCreator"/>

	<bean id="cciTemplate" class="org.springframework.jca.cci.core.CciTemplate">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="eciConnectionFactory"/>
		<property name="outputRecordCreator" ref="eciOutputRecordCreator"/>
	</bean>
----

[NOTE]
====
As the `CciTemplate` class is thread-safe, it will usually be configured as a shared
instance.
====



[[template-summary]]
==== Summary
The following table summarizes the mechanisms of the `CciTemplate` class and the
corresponding methods called on the CCI `Interaction` interface:

[[cci-interaction-execute-methods]]
.Usage of Interaction execute methods
[cols="3,1,3"]
|===
| CciTemplate method signature| CciTemplate outputRecordCreator property| execute method called on the CCI Interaction

| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record)
| not set
| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record)

| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record)
| set
| boolean execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)

| void execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)
| not set
| void execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)

| void execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)
| set
| void execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)

| Record execute(InteractionSpec, RecordCreator)
| not set
| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record)

| Record execute(InteractionSpec, RecordCreator)
| set
| void execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)

| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record, RecordExtractor)
| not set
| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record)

| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record, RecordExtractor)
| set
| void execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)

| Record execute(InteractionSpec, RecordCreator, RecordExtractor)
| not set
| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record)

| Record execute(InteractionSpec, RecordCreator, RecordExtractor)
| set
| void execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)
|===



[[cci-straight]]
==== Using a CCI Connection and Interaction directly

`CciTemplate` also offers the possibility to work directly with CCI connections and
interactions, in the same manner as `JdbcTemplate` and `JmsTemplate`. This is useful
when you want to perform multiple operations on a CCI connection or interaction, for
example.

The interface `ConnectionCallback` provides a CCI `Connection` as argument, in order to
perform custom operations on it, plus the CCI `ConnectionFactory` which the `Connection`
was created with. The latter can be useful for example to get an associated
`RecordFactory` instance and create indexed/mapped records, for example.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface ConnectionCallback {

		Object doInConnection(Connection connection, ConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
				throws ResourceException, SQLException, DataAccessException;

	}
----

The interface `InteractionCallback` provides the CCI `Interaction`, in order to perform
custom operations on it, plus the corresponding CCI `ConnectionFactory`.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface InteractionCallback {

		Object doInInteraction(Interaction interaction, ConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
			throws ResourceException, SQLException, DataAccessException;

	}
----

[NOTE]
====
`InteractionSpec` objects can either be shared across multiple template calls or newly
created inside every callback method. This is completely up to the DAO implementation.
====



[[cci-template-example]]
==== Example for CciTemplate usage

In this section, the usage of the `CciTemplate` will be shown to acces to a CICS with
ECI mode, with the IBM CICS ECI connector.

Firstly, some initializations on the CCI `InteractionSpec` must be done to specify which
CICS program to access and how to interact with it.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	ECIInteractionSpec interactionSpec = new ECIInteractionSpec();
	interactionSpec.setFunctionName("MYPROG");
	interactionSpec.setInteractionVerb(ECIInteractionSpec.SYNC_SEND_RECEIVE);
----

Then the program can use CCI via Spring's template and specify mappings between custom
objects and CCI `Records`.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class MyDaoImpl extends CciDaoSupport implements MyDao {

		public OutputObject getData(InputObject input) {
			ECIInteractionSpec interactionSpec = ...;

		OutputObject output = (ObjectOutput) getCciTemplate().execute(interactionSpec,
			new RecordCreator() {
				public Record createRecord(RecordFactory recordFactory) throws ResourceException {
					return new CommAreaRecord(input.toString().getBytes());
				}
			},
			new RecordExtractor() {
				public Object extractData(Record record) throws ResourceException {
					CommAreaRecord commAreaRecord = (CommAreaRecord)record;
					String str = new String(commAreaRecord.toByteArray());
					String field1 = string.substring(0,6);
					String field2 = string.substring(6,1);
					return new OutputObject(Long.parseLong(field1), field2);
				}
			});

			return output;
		}
	}
----

As discussed previously, callbacks can be used to work directly on CCI connections or
interactions.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class MyDaoImpl extends CciDaoSupport implements MyDao {

		public OutputObject getData(InputObject input) {
			ObjectOutput output = (ObjectOutput) getCciTemplate().execute(
				new ConnectionCallback() {
					public Object doInConnection(Connection connection,
							ConnectionFactory factory) throws ResourceException {

						// do something...

					}
				});
			}
			return output;
		}

	}
----

[NOTE]
====
With a `ConnectionCallback`, the `Connection` used will be managed and closed by the
`CciTemplate`, but any interactions created on the connection must be managed by the
callback implementation.
====

For a more specific callback, you can implement an `InteractionCallback`. The passed-in
`Interaction` will be managed and closed by the `CciTemplate` in this case.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class MyDaoImpl extends CciDaoSupport implements MyDao {

		public String getData(String input) {
			ECIInteractionSpec interactionSpec = ...;
			String output = (String) getCciTemplate().execute(interactionSpec,
				new InteractionCallback() {
					public Object doInInteraction(Interaction interaction,
							ConnectionFactory factory) throws ResourceException {
						Record input = new CommAreaRecord(inputString.getBytes());
						Record output = new CommAreaRecord();
						interaction.execute(holder.getInteractionSpec(), input, output);
						return new String(output.toByteArray());
					}
				});
			return output;
		}

	}
----

For the examples above, the corresponding configuration of the involved Spring beans
could look like this in non-managed mode:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="managedConnectionFactory" class="com.ibm.connector2.cics.ECIManagedConnectionFactory">
		<property name="serverName" value="TXSERIES"/>
		<property name="connectionURL" value="local:"/>
		<property name="userName" value="CICSUSER"/>
		<property name="password" value="CICS"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="connectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jca.support.LocalConnectionFactoryBean">
		<property name="managedConnectionFactory" ref="managedConnectionFactory"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="component" class="mypackage.MyDaoImpl">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----

In managed mode (that is, in a Java EE environment), the configuration could look as
follows:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jee:jndi-lookup id="connectionFactory" jndi-name="eis/cicseci"/>

	<bean id="component" class="MyDaoImpl">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----




[[cci-object]]
=== Modeling CCI access as operation objects
The `org.springframework.jca.cci.object` package contains support classes that allow you
to access the EIS in a different style: through reusable operation objects, analogous to
Spring's JDBC operation objects (see JDBC chapter). This will usually encapsulate the
CCI API: an application-level input object will be passed to the operation object, so it
can construct the input record and then convert the received record data to an
application-level output object and return it.

[NOTE]
====
This approach is internally based on the `CciTemplate` class and the
`RecordCreator` / `RecordExtractor` interfaces, reusing the machinery of Spring's core
CCI support.
====



[[cci-object-mapping-record]]
==== MappingRecordOperation

`MappingRecordOperation` essentially performs the same work as `CciTemplate`, but
represents a specific, pre-configured operation as an object. It provides two template
methods to specify how to convert an input object to a input record, and how to convert
an output record to an output object (record mapping):

* `createInputRecord(..)` to specify how to convert an input object to an input `Record`
* `extractOutputData(..)` to specify how to extract an output object from an output
  `Record`

Here are the signatures of these methods:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public abstract class MappingRecordOperation extends EisOperation {

		...

		protected abstract Record createInputRecord(RecordFactory recordFactory,
				Object inputObject) throws ResourceException, DataAccessException {
			// ...
		}

		protected abstract Object extractOutputData(Record outputRecord)
				throws ResourceException, SQLException, DataAccessException {
			// ...
		}

		...

	}
----

Thereafter, in order to execute an EIS operation, you need to use a single execute
method, passing in an application-level input object and receiving an application-level
output object as result:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public abstract class MappingRecordOperation extends EisOperation {

		...

		public Object execute(Object inputObject) throws DataAccessException {
		}

		...
	}
----

As you can see, contrary to the `CciTemplate` class, this `execute(..)` method does not
have an `InteractionSpec` as argument. Instead, the `InteractionSpec` is global to the
operation. The following constructor must be used to instantiate an operation object
with a specific `InteractionSpec`:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	InteractionSpec spec = ...;
	MyMappingRecordOperation eisOperation = new MyMappingRecordOperation(getConnectionFactory(), spec);
	...
----



[[cci-object-mapping-comm-area]]
==== MappingCommAreaOperation

Some connectors use records based on a COMMAREA which represents an array of bytes
containing parameters to send to the EIS and data returned by it. Spring provides a
special operation class for working directly on COMMAREA rather than on records. The
`MappingCommAreaOperation` class extends the `MappingRecordOperation` class to provide
such special COMMAREA support. It implicitly uses the `CommAreaRecord` class as input
and output record type, and provides two new methods to convert an input object into an
input COMMAREA and the output COMMAREA into an output object.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public abstract class MappingCommAreaOperation extends MappingRecordOperation {

		...

		protected abstract byte[] objectToBytes(Object inObject)
				throws IOException, DataAccessException;

		protected abstract Object bytesToObject(byte[] bytes)
			throws IOException, DataAccessException;

		...

	}
----



[[cci-automatic-record-gen]]
==== Automatic output record generation
As every `MappingRecordOperation` subclass is based on CciTemplate internally, the same
way to automatically generate output records as with `CciTemplate` is available. Every
operation object provides a corresponding `setOutputRecordCreator(..)` method. For
further information, see <<automatic-output-generation>>.



[[cci-object-summary]]
==== Summary
The operation object approach uses records in the same manner as the `CciTemplate` class.

[[cci-interaction-methods]]
.Usage of Interaction execute methods
[cols="3,1,3"]
|===
| MappingRecordOperation method signature| MappingRecordOperation outputRecordCreator property| execute method called on the CCI Interaction

| Object execute(Object)
| not set
| Record execute(InteractionSpec, Record)

| Object execute(Object)
| set
| boolean execute(InteractionSpec, Record, Record)
|===



[[cci-objects-mappring-record-example]]
==== Example for MappingRecordOperation usage

In this section, the usage of the `MappingRecordOperation` will be shown to access a
database with the Blackbox CCI connector.

[NOTE]
====
The original version of this connector is provided by the Java EE SDK (version 1.3),
available from Oracle.
====

Firstly, some initializations on the CCI `InteractionSpec` must be done to specify which
SQL request to execute. In this sample, we directly define the way to convert the
parameters of the request to a CCI record and the way to convert the CCI result record
to an instance of the `Person` class.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class PersonMappingOperation extends MappingRecordOperation {

		public PersonMappingOperation(ConnectionFactory connectionFactory) {
			setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory);
			CciInteractionSpec interactionSpec = new CciConnectionSpec();
			interactionSpec.setSql("select * from person where person_id=?");
			setInteractionSpec(interactionSpec);
		}

		protected Record createInputRecord(RecordFactory recordFactory,
				Object inputObject) throws ResourceException {
			Integer id = (Integer) inputObject;
			IndexedRecord input = recordFactory.createIndexedRecord("input");
			input.add(new Integer(id));
			return input;
		}

		protected Object extractOutputData(Record outputRecord)
				throws ResourceException, SQLException {
			ResultSet rs = (ResultSet) outputRecord;
			Person person = null;
			if (rs.next()) {
				Person person = new Person();
				person.setId(rs.getInt("person_id"));
				person.setLastName(rs.getString("person_last_name"));
				person.setFirstName(rs.getString("person_first_name"));
			}
			return person;
		}
	}
----

Then the application can execute the operation object, with the person identifier as
argument. Note that operation object could be set up as shared instance, as it is
thread-safe.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class MyDaoImpl extends CciDaoSupport implements MyDao {

		public Person getPerson(int id) {
			PersonMappingOperation query = new PersonMappingOperation(getConnectionFactory());
			Person person = (Person) query.execute(new Integer(id));
			return person;
		}
	}
----

The corresponding configuration of Spring beans could look as follows in non-managed mode:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="managedConnectionFactory"
			class="com.sun.connector.cciblackbox.CciLocalTxManagedConnectionFactory">
		<property name="connectionURL" value="jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001"/>
		<property name="driverName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="targetConnectionFactory"
			class="org.springframework.jca.support.LocalConnectionFactoryBean">
		<property name="managedConnectionFactory" ref="managedConnectionFactory"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="connectionFactory"
			class="org.springframework.jca.cci.connection.ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter">
		<property name="targetConnectionFactory" ref="targetConnectionFactory"/>
		<property name="connectionSpec">
			<bean class="com.sun.connector.cciblackbox.CciConnectionSpec">
				<property name="user" value="sa"/>
				<property name="password" value=""/>
			</bean>
		</property>
	</bean>

	<bean id="component" class="MyDaoImpl">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----

In managed mode (that is, in a Java EE environment), the configuration could look as
follows:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jee:jndi-lookup id="targetConnectionFactory" jndi-name="eis/blackbox"/>

	<bean id="connectionFactory"
			class="org.springframework.jca.cci.connection.ConnectionSpecConnectionFactoryAdapter">
		<property name="targetConnectionFactory" ref="targetConnectionFactory"/>
		<property name="connectionSpec">
			<bean class="com.sun.connector.cciblackbox.CciConnectionSpec">
				<property name="user" value="sa"/>
				<property name="password" value=""/>
			</bean>
		</property>
	</bean>

	<bean id="component" class="MyDaoImpl">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----



[[cci-objects-mapping-comm-area-example]]
==== Example for MappingCommAreaOperation usage

In this section, the usage of the `MappingCommAreaOperation` will be shown: accessing a
CICS with ECI mode with the IBM CICS ECI connector.

Firstly, the CCI `InteractionSpec` needs to be initialized to specify which CICS program
to access and how to interact with it.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public abstract class EciMappingOperation extends MappingCommAreaOperation {

		public EciMappingOperation(ConnectionFactory connectionFactory, String programName) {
			setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory);
			ECIInteractionSpec interactionSpec = new ECIInteractionSpec(),
			interactionSpec.setFunctionName(programName);
			interactionSpec.setInteractionVerb(ECIInteractionSpec.SYNC_SEND_RECEIVE);
			interactionSpec.setCommareaLength(30);
			setInteractionSpec(interactionSpec);
			setOutputRecordCreator(new EciOutputRecordCreator());
		}

		private static class EciOutputRecordCreator implements RecordCreator {
			public Record createRecord(RecordFactory recordFactory) throws ResourceException {
				return new CommAreaRecord();
			}
		}

	}
----

The abstract `EciMappingOperation` class can then be subclassed to specify mappings
between custom objects and `Records`.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class MyDaoImpl extends CciDaoSupport implements MyDao {

		public OutputObject getData(Integer id) {
			EciMappingOperation query = new EciMappingOperation(getConnectionFactory(), "MYPROG") {

				protected abstract byte[] objectToBytes(Object inObject) throws IOException {
					Integer id = (Integer) inObject;
					return String.valueOf(id);
				}

				protected abstract Object bytesToObject(byte[] bytes) throws IOException;
					String str = new String(bytes);
					String field1 = str.substring(0,6);
					String field2 = str.substring(6,1);
					String field3 = str.substring(7,1);
					return new OutputObject(field1, field2, field3);
				}
			});

			return (OutputObject) query.execute(new Integer(id));
		}

	}
----

The corresponding configuration of Spring beans could look as follows in non-managed mode:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="managedConnectionFactory" class="com.ibm.connector2.cics.ECIManagedConnectionFactory">
		<property name="serverName" value="TXSERIES"/>
		<property name="connectionURL" value="local:"/>
		<property name="userName" value="CICSUSER"/>
		<property name="password" value="CICS"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="connectionFactory" class="org.springframework.jca.support.LocalConnectionFactoryBean">
		<property name="managedConnectionFactory" ref="managedConnectionFactory"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="component" class="MyDaoImpl">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----

In managed mode (that is, in a Java EE environment), the configuration could look as
follows:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jee:jndi-lookup id="connectionFactory" jndi-name="eis/cicseci"/>

	<bean id="component" class="MyDaoImpl">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----




[[cci-tx]]
=== Transactions
JCA specifies several levels of transaction support for resource adapters. The kind of
transactions that your resource adapter supports is specified in its `ra.xml` file.
There are essentially three options: none (for example with CICS EPI connector), local
transactions (for example with a CICS ECI connector), global transactions (for example
with an IMS connector).

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<connector>
		<resourceadapter>
			<!-- <transaction-support>NoTransaction</transaction-support> -->
			<!-- <transaction-support>LocalTransaction</transaction-support> -->
			<transaction-support>XATransaction</transaction-support>
		<resourceadapter>
	<connector>
----

For global transactions, you can use Spring's generic transaction infrastructure to
demarcate transactions, with `JtaTransactionManager` as backend (delegating to the Java
EE server's distributed transaction coordinator underneath).

For local transactions on a single CCI `ConnectionFactory`, Spring provides a specific
transaction management strategy for CCI, analogous to the `DataSourceTransactionManager`
for JDBC. The CCI API defines a local transaction object and corresponding local
transaction demarcation methods. Spring's `CciLocalTransactionManager` executes such
local CCI transactions, fully compliant with Spring's generic
`PlatformTransactionManager` abstraction.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<jee:jndi-lookup id="eciConnectionFactory" jndi-name="eis/cicseci"/>

	<bean id="eciTransactionManager"
			class="org.springframework.jca.cci.connection.CciLocalTransactionManager">
		<property name="connectionFactory" ref="eciConnectionFactory"/>
	</bean>
----

Both transaction strategies can be used with any of Spring's transaction demarcation
facilities, be it declarative or programmatic. This is a consequence of Spring's generic
`PlatformTransactionManager` abstraction, which decouples transaction demarcation from
the actual execution strategy. Simply switch between `JtaTransactionManager` and
`CciLocalTransactionManager` as needed, keeping your transaction demarcation as-is.

For more information on Spring's transaction facilities, see the chapter entitled
<<transaction>>.



[[mail]]
== Email


[[mail-introduction]]
=== Introduction

.Library dependencies
****
The following JAR needs to be on the classpath of your application in order to use
the Spring Framework's email library.

* The https://java.net/projects/javamail/pages/Home[JavaMail] library

This library is freely available on the web -- for example, in Maven Central as
`com.sun.mail:javax.mail`.
****

The Spring Framework provides a helpful utility library for sending email that shields
the user from the specifics of the underlying mailing system and is responsible for low
level resource handling on behalf of the client.

The `org.springframework.mail` package is the root level package for the Spring
Framework's email support. The central interface for sending emails is the `MailSender`
interface; a simple value object encapsulating the properties of a simple mail such as
__from__ and __to__ (plus many others) is the `SimpleMailMessage` class. This package
also contains a hierarchy of checked exceptions which provide a higher level of
abstraction over the lower level mail system exceptions with the root exception being
`MailException`. Please refer to the javadocs for more information on the rich mail
exception hierarchy.

The `org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSender` interface adds specialized
__JavaMail__ features such as MIME message support to the `MailSender` interface (from
which it inherits). `JavaMailSender` also provides a callback interface for preparation
of JavaMail MIME messages, called
`org.springframework.mail.javamail.MimeMessagePreparator`




[[mail-usage]]
=== Usage
Let's assume there is a business interface called `OrderManager`:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface OrderManager {

		void placeOrder(Order order);

	}
----

Let us also assume that there is a requirement stating that an email message with an
order number needs to be generated and sent to a customer placing the relevant order.



[[mail-usage-simple]]
==== Basic MailSender and SimpleMailMessage usage

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	import org.springframework.mail.MailException;
	import org.springframework.mail.MailSender;
	import org.springframework.mail.SimpleMailMessage;

	public class SimpleOrderManager implements OrderManager {

		private MailSender mailSender;
		private SimpleMailMessage templateMessage;

		public void setMailSender(MailSender mailSender) {
			this.mailSender = mailSender;
		}

		public void setTemplateMessage(SimpleMailMessage templateMessage) {
			this.templateMessage = templateMessage;
		}

		public void placeOrder(Order order) {

			// Do the business calculations...

			// Call the collaborators to persist the order...

			// Create a thread safe "copy" of the template message and customize it
			SimpleMailMessage msg = new SimpleMailMessage(this.templateMessage);
			msg.setTo(order.getCustomer().getEmailAddress());
			msg.setText(
				"Dear " + order.getCustomer().getFirstName()
					+ order.getCustomer().getLastName()
					+ ", thank you for placing order. Your order number is "
					+ order.getOrderNumber());
			try{
				this.mailSender.send(msg);
			}
			catch (MailException ex) {
				// simply log it and go on...
				System.err.println(ex.getMessage());
			}
		}

	}
----

Find below the bean definitions for the above code:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="mailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
		<property name="host" value="mail.mycompany.com"/>
	</bean>

	<!-- this is a template message that we can pre-load with default state -->
	<bean id="templateMessage" class="org.springframework.mail.SimpleMailMessage">
		<property name="from" value="customerservice@mycompany.com"/>
		<property name="subject" value="Your order"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="orderManager" class="com.mycompany.businessapp.support.SimpleOrderManager">
		<property name="mailSender" ref="mailSender"/>
		<property name="templateMessage" ref="templateMessage"/>
	</bean>
----



[[mail-usage-mime]]
==== Using the JavaMailSender and the MimeMessagePreparator

Here is another implementation of `OrderManager` using the `MimeMessagePreparator`
callback interface. Please note in this case that the `mailSender` property is of type
`JavaMailSender` so that we are able to use the JavaMail `MimeMessage` class:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	import javax.mail.Message;
	import javax.mail.MessagingException;
	import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
	import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;

	import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
	import org.springframework.mail.MailException;
	import org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSender;
	import org.springframework.mail.javamail.MimeMessagePreparator;

	public class SimpleOrderManager implements OrderManager {

		private JavaMailSender mailSender;

		public void setMailSender(JavaMailSender mailSender) {
			this.mailSender = mailSender;
		}

		public void placeOrder(final Order order) {

			// Do the business calculations...

			// Call the collaborators to persist the order...

			MimeMessagePreparator preparator = new MimeMessagePreparator() {

				public void prepare(MimeMessage mimeMessage) throws Exception {

					mimeMessage.setRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO,
							new InternetAddress(order.getCustomer().getEmailAddress()));
					mimeMessage.setFrom(new InternetAddress("mail@mycompany.com"));
					mimeMessage.setText(
							"Dear " + order.getCustomer().getFirstName() + " "
								+ order.getCustomer().getLastName()
								+ ", thank you for placing order. Your order number is "
								+ order.getOrderNumber());
				}
			};

			try {
				this.mailSender.send(preparator);
			}
			catch (MailException ex) {
				// simply log it and go on...
				System.err.println(ex.getMessage());
			}
		}

	}
----

[NOTE]
====
The mail code is a crosscutting concern and could well be a candidate for refactoring
into a <<aop,custom Spring AOP aspect>>, which then could be executed at appropriate
joinpoints on the `OrderManager` target.
====

The Spring Framework's mail support ships with the standard JavaMail implementation.
Please refer to the relevant javadocs for more information.




[[mail-javamail-mime]]
=== Using the JavaMail MimeMessageHelper

A class that comes in pretty handy when dealing with JavaMail messages is the
`org.springframework.mail.javamail.MimeMessageHelper` class, which shields you from
having to use the verbose JavaMail API. Using the `MimeMessageHelper` it is pretty easy
to create a `MimeMessage`:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	// of course you would use DI in any real-world cases
	JavaMailSenderImpl sender = new JavaMailSenderImpl();
	sender.setHost("mail.host.com");

	MimeMessage message = sender.createMimeMessage();
	MimeMessageHelper helper = new MimeMessageHelper(message);
	helper.setTo("test@host.com");
	helper.setText("Thank you for ordering!");

	sender.send(message);
----



[[mail-javamail-mime-attachments]]
==== Sending attachments and inline resources
Multipart email messages allow for both attachments and inline resources. Examples of
inline resources would be images or a stylesheet you want to use in your message, but
that you don't want displayed as an attachment.


[[mail-javamail-mime-attachments-attachment]]
===== Attachments
The following example shows you how to use the `MimeMessageHelper` to send an email
along with a single JPEG image attachment.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	JavaMailSenderImpl sender = new JavaMailSenderImpl();
	sender.setHost("mail.host.com");

	MimeMessage message = sender.createMimeMessage();

	// use the true flag to indicate you need a multipart message
	MimeMessageHelper helper = new MimeMessageHelper(message, true);
	helper.setTo("test@host.com");

	helper.setText("Check out this image!");

	// let's attach the infamous windows Sample file (this time copied to c:/)
	FileSystemResource file = new FileSystemResource(new File("c:/Sample.jpg"));
	helper.addAttachment("CoolImage.jpg", file);

	sender.send(message);
----


[[mail-javamail-mime-attachments-inline]]
===== Inline resources
The following example shows you how to use the `MimeMessageHelper` to send an email
along with an inline image.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	JavaMailSenderImpl sender = new JavaMailSenderImpl();
	sender.setHost("mail.host.com");

	MimeMessage message = sender.createMimeMessage();

	// use the true flag to indicate you need a multipart message
	MimeMessageHelper helper = new MimeMessageHelper(message, true);
	helper.setTo("test@host.com");

	// use the true flag to indicate the text included is HTML
	helper.setText("<html><body><img src='cid:identifier1234'></body></html>", true);

	// let's include the infamous windows Sample file (this time copied to c:/)
	FileSystemResource res = new FileSystemResource(new File("c:/Sample.jpg"));
	helper.addInline("identifier1234", res);

	sender.send(message);
----

[WARNING]
====

Inline resources are added to the mime message using the specified `Content-ID` (
`identifier1234` in the above example). The order in which you are adding the text and
the resource are __very__ important. Be sure to __first add the text__ and after that
the resources. If you are doing it the other way around, it won't work!
====



[[mail-templates]]
==== Creating email content using a templating library
The code in the previous examples explicitly created the content of the email message,
using methods calls such as `message.setText(..)`. This is fine for simple cases, and it
is okay in the context of the aforementioned examples, where the intent was to show you
the very basics of the API.

In your typical enterprise application though, you are not going to create the content
of your emails using the above approach for a number of reasons.

* Creating HTML-based email content in Java code is tedious and error prone
* There is no clear separation between display logic and business logic
* Changing the display structure of the email content requires writing Java code,
  recompiling, redeploying...

Typically the approach taken to address these issues is to use a template library such
as FreeMarker or Velocity to define the display structure of email content. This leaves
your code tasked only with creating the data that is to be rendered in the email
template and sending the email. It is definitely a best practice for when the content of
your emails becomes even moderately complex, and with the Spring Framework's support
classes for FreeMarker and Velocity becomes quite easy to do. Find below an example of
using the Velocity template library to create email content.


[[mail-templates-example]]
===== A Velocity-based example
To use http://velocity.apache.org[Velocity] to create your email template(s), you will
need to have the Velocity libraries available on your classpath. You will also need to
create one or more Velocity templates for the email content that your application needs.
Find below the Velocity template that this example will be using. As you can see it is
HTML-based, and since it is plain text it can be created using your favorite HTML or
text editor.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	# in the com/foo/package
	<html>
		<body>
			<h3>Hi ${user.userName}, welcome to the Chipping Sodbury On-the-Hill message boards!</h3>

			<div>
				Your email address is <a href="mailto:${user.emailAddress}">${user.emailAddress}</a>.
			</div>
		</body>
	</html>
----

Find below some simple code and Spring XML configuration that makes use of the above
Velocity template to create email content and send email(s).

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package com.foo;

	import org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine;
	import org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSender;
	import org.springframework.mail.javamail.MimeMessageHelper;
	import org.springframework.mail.javamail.MimeMessagePreparator;
	import org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineUtils;

	import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;
	import java.util.HashMap;
	import java.util.Map;

	public class SimpleRegistrationService implements RegistrationService {

		private JavaMailSender mailSender;
		private VelocityEngine velocityEngine;

		public void setMailSender(JavaMailSender mailSender) {
			this.mailSender = mailSender;
		}

		public void setVelocityEngine(VelocityEngine velocityEngine) {
			this.velocityEngine = velocityEngine;
		}

		public void register(User user) {

			// Do the registration logic...

			sendConfirmationEmail(user);
		}

		private void sendConfirmationEmail(final User user) {
			MimeMessagePreparator preparator = new MimeMessagePreparator() {
				public void prepare(MimeMessage mimeMessage) throws Exception {
					MimeMessageHelper message = new MimeMessageHelper(mimeMessage);
					message.setTo(user.getEmailAddress());
					message.setFrom("webmaster@csonth.gov.uk"); // could be parameterized...
					Map model = new HashMap();
					model.put("user", user);
					String text = VelocityEngineUtils.mergeTemplateIntoString(
							velocityEngine, "com/dns/registration-confirmation.vm", model);
					message.setText(text, true);
				}
			};
			this.mailSender.send(preparator);
		}

	}
----

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

		<bean id="mailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">
			<property name="host" value="mail.csonth.gov.uk"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="registrationService" class="com.foo.SimpleRegistrationService">
			<property name="mailSender" ref="mailSender"/>
			<property name="velocityEngine" ref="velocityEngine"/>
		</bean>

		<bean id="velocityEngine" class="org.springframework.ui.velocity.VelocityEngineFactoryBean">
			<property name="velocityProperties">
				<value>
					resource.loader=class
					class.resource.loader.class=org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader
				</value>
			</property>
		</bean>

	</beans>
----



[[scheduling]]
== Task Execution and Scheduling




[[scheduling-introduction]]
=== Introduction
The Spring Framework provides abstractions for asynchronous execution and scheduling of
tasks with the `TaskExecutor` and `TaskScheduler` interfaces, respectively. Spring also
features implementations of those interfaces that support thread pools or delegation to
CommonJ within an application server environment. Ultimately the use of these
implementations behind the common interfaces abstracts away the differences between Java
SE 5, Java SE 6 and Java EE environments.

Spring also features integration classes for supporting scheduling with the `Timer`,
part of the JDK since 1.3, and the Quartz Scheduler ( http://quartz-scheduler.org[]).
Both of those schedulers are set up using a `FactoryBean` with optional references to
`Timer` or `Trigger` instances, respectively. Furthermore, a convenience class for both
the Quartz Scheduler and the `Timer` is available that allows you to invoke a method of
an existing target object (analogous to the normal `MethodInvokingFactoryBean`
operation).




[[scheduling-task-executor]]
=== The Spring TaskExecutor abstraction

Spring 2.0 introduces a new abstraction for dealing with executors. Executors are the
Java 5 name for the concept of thread pools. The "executor" naming is due to the fact
that there is no guarantee that the underlying implementation is actually a pool; an
executor may be single-threaded or even synchronous. Spring's abstraction hides
implementation details between Java SE 1.4, Java SE 5 and Java EE environments.

Spring's `TaskExecutor` interface is identical to the `java.util.concurrent.Executor`
interface. In fact, its primary reason for existence was to abstract away the need for
Java 5 when using thread pools. The interface has a single method `execute(Runnable
task)` that accepts a task for execution based on the semantics and configuration of the
thread pool.

The `TaskExecutor` was originally created to give other Spring components an abstraction
for thread pooling where needed. Components such as the `ApplicationEventMulticaster`,
JMS's `AbstractMessageListenerContainer`, and Quartz integration all use the
`TaskExecutor` abstraction to pool threads. However, if your beans need thread pooling
behavior, it is possible to use this abstraction for your own needs.



[[scheduling-task-executor-types]]
==== TaskExecutor types

There are a number of pre-built implementations of `TaskExecutor` included with the
Spring distribution. In all likelihood, you shouldn't ever need to implement your own.

* `SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor`
  This implementation does not reuse any threads, rather it starts up a new thread
  for each invocation. However, it does support a concurrency limit which will block
  any invocations that are over the limit until a slot has been freed up. If you
  are looking for true pooling, see the discussions of `SimpleThreadPoolTaskExecutor`
  and `ThreadPoolTaskExecutor` below.
* `SyncTaskExecutor`
  This implementation doesn't execute invocations asynchronously. Instead, each
  invocation takes place in the calling thread. It is primarily used in situations
  where multi-threading isn't necessary such as simple test cases.
* `ConcurrentTaskExecutor`
  This implementation is an adapter for a `java.util.concurrent.Executor` object.
  There is an alternative, `ThreadPoolTaskExecutor`, that exposes the `Executor`
  configuration parameters as bean properties. It is rare to need to use the
  `ConcurrentTaskExecutor`, but if the `ThreadPoolTaskExecutor` isn't flexible
  enough for your needs, the `ConcurrentTaskExecutor` is an alternative.
* `SimpleThreadPoolTaskExecutor`
  This implementation is actually a subclass of Quartz's `SimpleThreadPool` which
  listens to Spring's lifecycle callbacks. This is typically used when you have a
  thread pool that may need to be shared by both Quartz and non-Quartz components.
* `ThreadPoolTaskExecutor`
  This implementation is the most commonly used one. It exposes bean properties for
  configuring a `java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor` and wraps it in a `TaskExecutor`.
  If you need to adapt to a different kind of `java.util.concurrent.Executor`, it is
  recommended that you use a `ConcurrentTaskExecutor` instead.
* `WorkManagerTaskExecutor`

+

****
CommonJ is a set of specifications jointly developed between BEA and IBM. These
specifications are not Java EE standards, but are standard across BEA's and IBM's
Application Server implementations.
****

+

This implementation uses the CommonJ `WorkManager` as its backing implementation and is
the central convenience class for setting up a CommonJ `WorkManager` reference in a Spring
context. Similar to the `SimpleThreadPoolTaskExecutor`, this class implements the
`WorkManager` interface and therefore can be used directly as a `WorkManager` as well.



[[scheduling-task-executor-usage]]
==== Using a TaskExecutor

Spring's `TaskExecutor` implementations are used as simple JavaBeans. In the example
below, we define a bean that uses the `ThreadPoolTaskExecutor` to asynchronously print
out a set of messages.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	import org.springframework.core.task.TaskExecutor;

	public class TaskExecutorExample {

		private class MessagePrinterTask implements Runnable {

			private String message;

			public MessagePrinterTask(String message) {
				this.message = message;
			}

			public void run() {
				System.out.println(message);
			}

		}

		private TaskExecutor taskExecutor;

		public TaskExecutorExample(TaskExecutor taskExecutor) {
			this.taskExecutor = taskExecutor;
		}

		public void printMessages() {
			for(int i = 0; i < 25; i++) {
				taskExecutor.execute(new MessagePrinterTask("Message" + i));
			}
		}

	}
----

As you can see, rather than retrieving a thread from the pool and executing yourself,
you add your `Runnable` to the queue and the `TaskExecutor` uses its internal rules to
decide when the task gets executed.

To configure the rules that the `TaskExecutor` will use, simple bean properties have
been exposed.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="taskExecutor" class="org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskExecutor">
		<property name="corePoolSize" value="5" />
		<property name="maxPoolSize" value="10" />
		<property name="queueCapacity" value="25" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="taskExecutorExample" class="TaskExecutorExample">
		<constructor-arg ref="taskExecutor" />
	</bean>
----




[[scheduling-task-scheduler]]
=== The Spring TaskScheduler abstraction

In addition to the `TaskExecutor` abstraction, Spring 3.0 introduces a `TaskScheduler`
with a variety of methods for scheduling tasks to run at some point in the future.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface TaskScheduler {

		ScheduledFuture schedule(Runnable task, Trigger trigger);

		ScheduledFuture schedule(Runnable task, Date startTime);

		ScheduledFuture scheduleAtFixedRate(Runnable task, Date startTime, long period);

		ScheduledFuture scheduleAtFixedRate(Runnable task, long period);

		ScheduledFuture scheduleWithFixedDelay(Runnable task, Date startTime, long delay);

		ScheduledFuture scheduleWithFixedDelay(Runnable task, long delay);

	}
----

The simplest method is the one named 'schedule' that takes a `Runnable` and `Date` only.
That will cause the task to run once after the specified time. All of the other methods
are capable of scheduling tasks to run repeatedly. The fixed-rate and fixed-delay
methods are for simple, periodic execution, but the method that accepts a Trigger is
much more flexible.



[[scheduling-trigger-interface]]
==== the Trigger interface

The `Trigger` interface is essentially inspired by JSR-236, which, as of Spring 3.0, has
not yet been officially implemented. The basic idea of the `Trigger` is that execution
times may be determined based on past execution outcomes or even arbitrary conditions.
If these determinations do take into account the outcome of the preceding execution,
that information is available within a `TriggerContext`. The `Trigger` interface itself
is quite simple:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface Trigger {

		Date nextExecutionTime(TriggerContext triggerContext);

	}
----

As you can see, the `TriggerContext` is the most important part. It encapsulates all of
the relevant data, and is open for extension in the future if necessary. The
`TriggerContext` is an interface (a `SimpleTriggerContext` implementation is used by
default). Here you can see what methods are available for `Trigger` implementations.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface TriggerContext {

		Date lastScheduledExecutionTime();

		Date lastActualExecutionTime();

		Date lastCompletionTime();

	}
----



[[scheduling-trigger-implementations]]
==== Trigger implementations

Spring provides two implementations of the `Trigger` interface. The most interesting one
is the `CronTrigger`. It enables the scheduling of tasks based on cron expressions. For
example, the following task is being scheduled to run 15 minutes past each hour but only
during the 9-to-5 "business hours" on weekdays.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim"]
----
	scheduler.schedule(task, new CronTrigger("0 15 9-17 * * MON-FRI"));
----

The other out-of-the-box implementation is a `PeriodicTrigger` that accepts a fixed
period, an optional initial delay value, and a boolean to indicate whether the period
should be interpreted as a fixed-rate or a fixed-delay. Since the `TaskScheduler`
interface already defines methods for scheduling tasks at a fixed-rate or with a
fixed-delay, those methods should be used directly whenever possible. The value of the
`PeriodicTrigger` implementation is that it can be used within components that rely on
the `Trigger` abstraction. For example, it may be convenient to allow periodic triggers,
cron-based triggers, and even custom trigger implementations to be used interchangeably.
Such a component could take advantage of dependency injection so that such `Triggers`
could be configured externally and therefore easily modified or extended.



[[scheduling-task-scheduler-implementations]]
==== TaskScheduler implementations

As with Spring's `TaskExecutor` abstraction, the primary benefit of the `TaskScheduler`
is that code relying on scheduling behavior need not be coupled to a particular
scheduler implementation. The flexibility this provides is particularly relevant when
running within Application Server environments where threads should not be created
directly by the application itself. For such cases, Spring provides a
`TimerManagerTaskScheduler` that delegates to a CommonJ TimerManager instance, typically
configured with a JNDI-lookup.

A simpler alternative, the `ThreadPoolTaskScheduler`, can be used whenever external
thread management is not a requirement. Internally, it delegates to a
`ScheduledExecutorService` instance. `ThreadPoolTaskScheduler` actually implements
Spring's `TaskExecutor` interface as well, so that a single instance can be used for
asynchronous execution __as soon as possible__ as well as scheduled, and potentially
recurring, executions.




[[scheduling-annotation-support]]
=== Annotation Support for Scheduling and Asynchronous Execution
Spring provides annotation support for both task scheduling and asynchronous method
execution.



[[scheduling-enable-annotation-support]]
==== Enable scheduling annotations
To enable support for `@Scheduled` and `@Async` annotations add `@EnableScheduling` and
`@EnableAsync` to one of your `@Configuration` classes:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Configuration
	@EnableAsync
	@EnableScheduling
	public class AppConfig {
	}
----

You are free to pick and choose the relevant annotations for your application. For
example, if you only need support for `@Scheduled`, simply omit `@EnableAsync`. For more
fine-grained control you can additionally implement the `SchedulingConfigurer` and/or
`AsyncConfigurer` interfaces. See the javadocs for full details.

If you prefer XML configuration use the `<task:annotation-driven>` element.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<task:annotation-driven executor="myExecutor" scheduler="myScheduler"/>
	<task:executor id="myExecutor" pool-size="5"/>
	<task:scheduler id="myScheduler" pool-size="10"/>
----

Notice with the above XML that an executor reference is provided for handling those
tasks that correspond to methods with the `@Async` annotation, and the scheduler
reference is provided for managing those methods annotated with `@Scheduled`.



[[scheduling-annotation-support-scheduled]]
==== The @Scheduled Annotation
The `@Scheduled` annotation can be added to a method along with trigger metadata. For
example, the following method would be invoked every 5 seconds with a fixed delay,
meaning that the period will be measured from the completion time of each preceding
invocation.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Scheduled(fixedDelay=5000)
	public void doSomething() {
		// something that should execute periodically
	}
----

If a fixed rate execution is desired, simply change the property name specified within
the annotation. The following would be executed every 5 seconds measured between the
successive start times of each invocation.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Scheduled(fixedRate=5000)
	public void doSomething() {
		// something that should execute periodically
	}
----

For fixed-delay and fixed-rate tasks, an initial delay may be specified indicating the
number of milliseconds to wait before the first execution of the method.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Scheduled(initialDelay=1000, fixedRate=5000)
	public void doSomething() {
		// something that should execute periodically
	}
----

If simple periodic scheduling is not expressive enough, then a cron expression may be
provided. For example, the following will only execute on weekdays.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim"]
----
	@Scheduled(cron="*/5 * * * * MON-FRI")
	public void doSomething() {
		// something that should execute on weekdays only
	}
----

[TIP]
====
You can additionally use the `zone` attribute to specify the time zone in which the cron
expression will be resolved.
====


Notice that the methods to be scheduled must have void returns and must not expect any
arguments. If the method needs to interact with other objects from the Application
Context, then those would typically have been provided through dependency injection.

[NOTE]
====
As of Spring Framework 4.3, `@Scheduled` methods are supported on beans of any scope.

Make sure that you are not initializing multiple instances of the same `@Scheduled`
annotation class at runtime, unless you do want to schedule callbacks to each such
instance. Related to this, make sure that you do not use `@Configurable` on bean
classes which are annotated with `@Scheduled` and registered as regular Spring beans
with the container: You would get double initialization otherwise, once through the
container and once through the `@Configurable` aspect, with the consequence of each
`@Scheduled` method being invoked twice.
====



[[scheduling-annotation-support-async]]
==== The @Async Annotation
The `@Async` annotation can be provided on a method so that invocation of that method
will occur asynchronously. In other words, the caller will return immediately upon
invocation and the actual execution of the method will occur in a task that has been
submitted to a Spring `TaskExecutor`. In the simplest case, the annotation may be
applied to a `void`-returning method.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Async
	void doSomething() {
		// this will be executed asynchronously
	}
----

Unlike the methods annotated with the `@Scheduled` annotation, these methods can expect
arguments, because they will be invoked in the "normal" way by callers at runtime rather
than from a scheduled task being managed by the container. For example, the following is
a legitimate application of the `@Async` annotation.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Async
	void doSomething(String s) {
		// this will be executed asynchronously
	}
----

Even methods that return a value can be invoked asynchronously. However, such methods
are required to have a `Future` typed return value. This still provides the benefit of
asynchronous execution so that the caller can perform other tasks prior to calling
`get()` on that Future.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Async
	Future<String> returnSomething(int i) {
		// this will be executed asynchronously
	}
----

`@Async` can not be used in conjunction with lifecycle callbacks such as
`@PostConstruct`. To asynchronously initialize Spring beans you currently have to use
a separate initializing Spring bean that invokes the `@Async` annotated method on the
target then.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class SampleBeanImpl implements SampleBean {

		@Async
		void doSomething() {
			// ...
		}

	}

	public class SampleBeanInitializer {

		private final SampleBean bean;

		public SampleBeanInitializer(SampleBean bean) {
			this.bean = bean;
		}

		@PostConstruct
		public void initialize() {
			bean.doSomething();
		}

	}
----

[NOTE]
====
There is no direct XML equivalent for `@Async` since such methods should be designed
for asynchronous execution in the first place, not externally re-declared to be async.
However, you may manually set up Spring's `AsyncExecutionInterceptor` with Spring AOP,
in combination with a custom pointcut.
====



[[scheduling-annotation-support-qualification]]
==== Executor qualification with @Async
By default when specifying `@Async` on a method, the executor that will be used is the
one supplied to the 'annotation-driven' element as described above. However, the `value`
attribute of the `@Async` annotation can be used when needing to indicate that an
executor other than the default should be used when executing a given method.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Async("otherExecutor")
	void doSomething(String s) {
		// this will be executed asynchronously by "otherExecutor"
	}
----

In this case, "otherExecutor" may be the name of any `Executor` bean in the Spring
container, or may be the name of a __qualifier__ associated with any `Executor`, e.g. as
specified with the `<qualifier>` element or Spring's `@Qualifier` annotation.



[[scheduling-annotation-support-exception]]
==== Exception management with @Async
When an `@Async` method has a `Future` typed return value, it is easy to manage
an exception that was thrown during the method execution as this exception will
be thrown when calling `get` on the `Future` result. With a void return type
however, the exception is uncaught and cannot be transmitted. For those cases, an
`AsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler` can be provided to handle such exceptions.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class MyAsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler implements AsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler {

    	@Override
    	public void handleUncaughtException(Throwable ex, Method method, Object... params) {
			// handle exception
    	}
	}
----

By default, the exception is simply logged. A custom `AsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler` can
be defined _via_ `AsyncConfigurer` or the `task:annotation-driven` XML element.

[[scheduling-task-namespace]]
=== The Task Namespace
Beginning with Spring 3.0, there is an XML namespace for configuring `TaskExecutor` and
`TaskScheduler` instances. It also provides a convenient way to configure tasks to be
scheduled with a trigger.



[[scheduling-task-namespace-scheduler]]
==== The 'scheduler' element
The following element will create a `ThreadPoolTaskScheduler` instance with the
specified thread pool size.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<task:scheduler id="scheduler" pool-size="10"/>
----

The value provided for the 'id' attribute will be used as the prefix for thread names
within the pool. The 'scheduler' element is relatively straightforward. If you do not
provide a 'pool-size' attribute, the default thread pool will only have a single thread.
There are no other configuration options for the scheduler.



[[scheduling-task-namespace-executor]]
==== The 'executor' element
The following will create a `ThreadPoolTaskExecutor` instance:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<task:executor id="executor" pool-size="10"/>
----

As with the scheduler above, the value provided for the 'id' attribute will be used as
the prefix for thread names within the pool. As far as the pool size is concerned, the
'executor' element supports more configuration options than the 'scheduler' element. For
one thing, the thread pool for a `ThreadPoolTaskExecutor` is itself more configurable.
Rather than just a single size, an executor's thread pool may have different values for
the __core__ and the __max__ size. If a single value is provided then the executor will
have a fixed-size thread pool (the core and max sizes are the same). However, the
'executor' element's 'pool-size' attribute also accepts a range in the form of "min-max".

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<task:executor
			id="executorWithPoolSizeRange"
			pool-size="5-25"
			queue-capacity="100"/>
----

As you can see from that configuration, a 'queue-capacity' value has also been provided.
The configuration of the thread pool should also be considered in light of the
executor's queue capacity. For the full description of the relationship between pool
size and queue capacity, consult the documentation for
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ThreadPoolExecutor.html[ThreadPoolExecutor].
The main idea is that when a task is submitted, the executor will first try to use a
free thread if the number of active threads is currently less than the core size. If the
core size has been reached, then the task will be added to the queue as long as its
capacity has not yet been reached. Only then, if the queue's capacity __has__ been
reached, will the executor create a new thread beyond the core size. If the max size has
also been reached, then the executor will reject the task.

By default, the queue is __unbounded__, but this is rarely the desired configuration,
because it can lead to `OutOfMemoryErrors` if enough tasks are added to that queue while
all pool threads are busy. Furthermore, if the queue is unbounded, then the max size has
no effect at all. Since the executor will always try the queue before creating a new
thread beyond the core size, a queue must have a finite capacity for the thread pool to
grow beyond the core size (this is why a __fixed size__ pool is the only sensible case
when using an unbounded queue).

In a moment, we will review the effects of the keep-alive setting which adds yet another
factor to consider when providing a pool size configuration. First, let's consider the
case, as mentioned above, when a task is rejected. By default, when a task is rejected,
a thread pool executor will throw a `TaskRejectedException`. However, the rejection
policy is actually configurable. The exception is thrown when using the default
rejection policy which is the `AbortPolicy` implementation. For applications where some
tasks can be skipped under heavy load, either the `DiscardPolicy` or
`DiscardOldestPolicy` may be configured instead. Another option that works well for
applications that need to throttle the submitted tasks under heavy load is the
`CallerRunsPolicy`. Instead of throwing an exception or discarding tasks, that policy
will simply force the thread that is calling the submit method to run the task itself.
The idea is that such a caller will be busy while running that task and not able to
submit other tasks immediately. Therefore it provides a simple way to throttle the
incoming load while maintaining the limits of the thread pool and queue. Typically this
allows the executor to "catch up" on the tasks it is handling and thereby frees up some
capacity on the queue, in the pool, or both. Any of these options can be chosen from an
enumeration of values available for the 'rejection-policy' attribute on the 'executor'
element.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<task:executor
			id="executorWithCallerRunsPolicy"
			pool-size="5-25"
			queue-capacity="100"
			rejection-policy="CALLER_RUNS"/>
----

Finally, the `keep-alive` setting determines the time limit (in seconds) for which threads
may remain idle before being terminated. If there are more than the core number of threads
currently in the pool, after waiting this amount of time without processing a task, excess
threads will get terminated. A time value of zero will cause excess threads to terminate
immediately after executing a task without remaining follow-up work in the task queue.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<task:executor
			id="executorWithKeepAlive"
			pool-size="5-25"
			keep-alive="120"/>
----



[[scheduling-task-namespace-scheduled-tasks]]
==== The 'scheduled-tasks' element
The most powerful feature of Spring's task namespace is the support for configuring
tasks to be scheduled within a Spring Application Context. This follows an approach
similar to other "method-invokers" in Spring, such as that provided by the JMS namespace
for configuring Message-driven POJOs. Basically a "ref" attribute can point to any
Spring-managed object, and the "method" attribute provides the name of a method to be
invoked on that object. Here is a simple example.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<task:scheduled-tasks scheduler="myScheduler">
		<task:scheduled ref="beanA" method="methodA" fixed-delay="5000"/>
	</task:scheduled-tasks>

	<task:scheduler id="myScheduler" pool-size="10"/>
----

As you can see, the scheduler is referenced by the outer element, and each individual
task includes the configuration of its trigger metadata. In the preceding example, that
metadata defines a periodic trigger with a fixed delay indicating the number of
milliseconds to wait after each task execution has completed. Another option is
'fixed-rate', indicating how often the method should be executed regardless of how long
any previous execution takes. Additionally, for both fixed-delay and fixed-rate tasks an
'initial-delay' parameter may be specified indicating the number of milliseconds to wait
before the first execution of the method. For more control, a "cron" attribute may be
provided instead. Here is an example demonstrating these other options.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim"]
----
	<task:scheduled-tasks scheduler="myScheduler">
		<task:scheduled ref="beanA" method="methodA" fixed-delay="5000" initial-delay="1000"/>
		<task:scheduled ref="beanB" method="methodB" fixed-rate="5000"/>
		<task:scheduled ref="beanC" method="methodC" cron="*/5 * * * * MON-FRI"/>
	</task:scheduled-tasks>

	<task:scheduler id="myScheduler" pool-size="10"/>
----




[[scheduling-quartz]]
=== Using the Quartz Scheduler
Quartz uses `Trigger`, `Job` and `JobDetail` objects to realize scheduling of all kinds
of jobs. For the basic concepts behind Quartz, have a look at
http://quartz-scheduler.org[]. For convenience purposes, Spring offers a couple of
classes that simplify the usage of Quartz within Spring-based applications.



[[scheduling-quartz-jobdetail]]
==== Using the JobDetailFactoryBean
Quartz `JobDetail` objects contain all information needed to run a job. Spring provides a
`JobDetailFactoryBean` which provides bean-style properties for XML configuration purposes.
Let's have a look at an example:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean name="exampleJob" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.JobDetailFactoryBean">
		<property name="jobClass" value="example.ExampleJob"/>
		<property name="jobDataAsMap">
			<map>
				<entry key="timeout" value="5"/>
			</map>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

The job detail configuration has all information it needs to run the job (`ExampleJob`).
The timeout is specified in the job data map. The job data map is available through the
`JobExecutionContext` (passed to you at execution time), but the `JobDetail` also gets
its properties from the job data mapped to properties of the job instance. So in this
case, if the `ExampleJob` contains a bean property named `timeout`, the `JobDetail`
will have it applied automatically:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim"]
----
	package example;

	public class ExampleJob extends QuartzJobBean {

		private int timeout;

		/**
		 * Setter called after the ExampleJob is instantiated
		 * with the value from the JobDetailFactoryBean (5)
		 */
		public void setTimeout(int timeout) {
			this.timeout = timeout;
		}

		protected void executeInternal(JobExecutionContext ctx) throws JobExecutionException {
			// do the actual work
		}

	}
----

All additional properties from the job data map are of course available to you as well.

[NOTE]
====
Using the `name` and `group` properties, you can modify the name and the group
of the job, respectively. By default, the name of the job matches the bean name
of the `JobDetailFactoryBean` (in the example above, this is `exampleJob`).
====



[[scheduling-quartz-method-invoking-job]]
==== Using the MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean

Often you just need to invoke a method on a specific object. Using the
`MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean` you can do exactly this:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="jobDetail" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean">
		<property name="targetObject" ref="exampleBusinessObject"/>
		<property name="targetMethod" value="doIt"/>
	</bean>
----

The above example will result in the `doIt` method being called on the
`exampleBusinessObject` method (see below):

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public class ExampleBusinessObject {

		// properties and collaborators

		public void doIt() {
			// do the actual work
		}
	}
----

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="exampleBusinessObject" class="examples.ExampleBusinessObject"/>
----

Using the `MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean`, you don't need to create one-line jobs
that just invoke a method, and you only need to create the actual business object and
wire up the detail object.

By default, Quartz Jobs are stateless, resulting in the possibility of jobs interfering
with each other. If you specify two triggers for the same `JobDetail`, it might be
possible that before the first job has finished, the second one will start. If
`JobDetail` classes implement the `Stateful` interface, this won't happen. The second
job will not start before the first one has finished. To make jobs resulting from the
`MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean` non-concurrent, set the `concurrent` flag to
`false`.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="jobDetail" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean">
		<property name="targetObject" ref="exampleBusinessObject"/>
		<property name="targetMethod" value="doIt"/>
		<property name="concurrent" value="false"/>
	</bean>
----

[NOTE]
====
By default, jobs will run in a concurrent fashion.
====



[[scheduling-quartz-cron]]
==== Wiring up jobs using triggers and the SchedulerFactoryBean

We've created job details and jobs. We've also reviewed the convenience bean that allows
you to invoke a method on a specific object. Of course, we still need to schedule the
jobs themselves. This is done using triggers and a `SchedulerFactoryBean`. Several
triggers are available within Quartz and Spring offers two Quartz `FactoryBean`
implementations with convenient defaults: `CronTriggerFactoryBean` and
`SimpleTriggerFactoryBean`.

Triggers need to be scheduled. Spring offers a `SchedulerFactoryBean` that exposes
triggers to be set as properties. `SchedulerFactoryBean` schedules the actual jobs with
those triggers.

Find below a couple of examples:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim"]
----
	<bean id="simpleTrigger" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SimpleTriggerFactoryBean">
		<!-- see the example of method invoking job above -->
		<property name="jobDetail" ref="jobDetail"/>
		<!-- 10 seconds -->
		<property name="startDelay" value="10000"/>
		<!-- repeat every 50 seconds -->
		<property name="repeatInterval" value="50000"/>
	</bean>

	<bean id="cronTrigger" class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.CronTriggerFactoryBean">
		<property name="jobDetail" ref="exampleJob"/>
		<!-- run every morning at 6 AM -->
		<property name="cronExpression" value="0 0 6 * * ?"/>
	</bean>
----

Now we've set up two triggers, one running every 50 seconds with a starting delay of 10
seconds and one every morning at 6 AM. To finalize everything, we need to set up the
`SchedulerFactoryBean`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean class="org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.SchedulerFactoryBean">
		<property name="triggers">
			<list>
				<ref bean="cronTrigger"/>
				<ref bean="simpleTrigger"/>
			</list>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

More properties are available for the `SchedulerFactoryBean` for you to set, such as the
calendars used by the job details, properties to customize Quartz with, etc. Have a look
at the
{api-spring-framework}/scheduling/quartz/SchedulerFactoryBean.html[`SchedulerFactoryBean`
javadocs] for more information.



[[dynamic-language]]
== Dynamic language support




[[dynamic-language-introduction]]
=== Introduction
Spring 2.0 introduces comprehensive support for using classes and objects that have been
defined using a dynamic language (such as JRuby) with Spring. This support allows you to
write any number of classes in a supported dynamic language, and have the Spring
container transparently instantiate, configure and dependency inject the resulting
objects.

The dynamic languages currently supported are:

* JRuby 1.5+
* Groovy 1.8+
* BeanShell 2.0

.Why only these languages?
****
The supported languages were chosen because __a)__ the languages have a lot of traction in
the Java enterprise community, __b)__ no requests were made for other languages at the time
that this support was added, and __c)__ the Spring developers were most familiar with
them.
****

Fully working examples of where this dynamic language support can be immediately useful
are described in <<dynamic-language-scenarios>>.




[[dynamic-language-a-first-example]]
=== A first example
This bulk of this chapter is concerned with describing the dynamic language support in
detail. Before diving into all of the ins and outs of the dynamic language support,
let's look at a quick example of a bean defined in a dynamic language. The dynamic
language for this first bean is Groovy (the basis of this example was taken from the
Spring test suite, so if you want to see equivalent examples in any of the other
supported languages, take a look at the source code).

Find below the `Messenger` interface that the Groovy bean is going to be implementing,
and note that this interface is defined in plain Java. Dependent objects that are
injected with a reference to the `Messenger` won't know that the underlying
implementation is a Groovy script.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.scripting;

	public interface Messenger {

		String getMessage();

	}
----

Here is the definition of a class that has a dependency on the `Messenger` interface.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.scripting;

	public class DefaultBookingService implements BookingService {

		private Messenger messenger;

		public void setMessenger(Messenger messenger) {
			this.messenger = messenger;
		}

		public void processBooking() {
			// use the injected Messenger object...
		}

	}
----

Here is an implementation of the `Messenger` interface in Groovy.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	// from the file 'Messenger.groovy'
	package org.springframework.scripting.groovy;

	// import the Messenger interface (written in Java) that is to be implemented
	import org.springframework.scripting.Messenger

	// define the implementation in Groovy
	class GroovyMessenger implements Messenger {

		String message

	}
----

Finally, here are the bean definitions that will effect the injection of the
Groovy-defined `Messenger` implementation into an instance of the
`DefaultBookingService` class.

[NOTE]
====
To use the custom dynamic language tags to define dynamic-language-backed beans, you
need to have the XML Schema preamble at the top of your Spring XML configuration file.
You also need to be using a Spring `ApplicationContext` implementation as your IoC
container. Using the dynamic-language-backed beans with a plain `BeanFactory`
implementation is supported, but you have to manage the plumbing of the Spring internals
to do so.

For more information on schema-based configuration, see <<xsd-configuration>>.
====

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
		xsi:schemaLocation="
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd">

		<!-- this is the bean definition for the Groovy-backed Messenger implementation -->
		<lang:groovy id="messenger" script-source="classpath:Messenger.groovy">
			<lang:property name="message" value="I Can Do The Frug" />
		</lang:groovy>

		<!-- an otherwise normal bean that will be injected by the Groovy-backed Messenger -->
		<bean id="bookingService" class="x.y.DefaultBookingService">
			<property name="messenger" ref="messenger" />
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

The `bookingService` bean (a `DefaultBookingService`) can now use its private
`messenger` member variable as normal because the `Messenger` instance that was injected
into it __is__ a `Messenger` instance. There is nothing special going on here, just
plain Java and plain Groovy.

Hopefully the above XML snippet is self-explanatory, but don't worry unduly if it isn't.
Keep reading for the in-depth detail on the whys and wherefores of the above
configuration.




[[dynamic-language-beans]]
=== Defining beans that are backed by dynamic languages
This section describes exactly how you define Spring managed beans in any of the
supported dynamic languages.

Please note that this chapter does not attempt to explain the syntax and idioms of the
supported dynamic languages. For example, if you want to use Groovy to write certain of
the classes in your application, then the assumption is that you already know Groovy. If
you need further details about the dynamic languages themselves, please
consult <<dynamic-language-resources>> at the end of this chapter.



[[dynamic-language-beans-concepts]]
==== Common concepts
The steps involved in using dynamic-language-backed beans are as follows:

* Write the test for the dynamic language source code (naturally)
* __Then__ write the dynamic language source code itself :)
* Define your dynamic-language-backed beans using the appropriate `<lang:language/>`
  element in the XML configuration (you can of course define such beans programmatically
  using the Spring API - although you will have to consult the source code for
  directions on how to do this as this type of advanced configuration is not covered in
  this chapter). Note this is an iterative step. You will need at least one bean
  definition per dynamic language source file (although the same dynamic language source
  file can of course be referenced by multiple bean definitions).

The first two steps (testing and writing your dynamic language source files) are beyond
the scope of this chapter. Refer to the language specification and / or reference manual
for your chosen dynamic language and crack on with developing your dynamic language
source files. You __will__ first want to read the rest of this chapter though, as
Spring's dynamic language support does make some (small) assumptions about the contents
of your dynamic language source files.


[[dynamic-language-beans-concepts-xml-language-element]]
===== The <lang:language/> element
The final step involves defining dynamic-language-backed bean definitions, one for each
bean that you want to configure (this is no different from normal JavaBean
configuration). However, instead of specifying the fully qualified classname of the
class that is to be instantiated and configured by the container, you use the
`<lang:language/>` element to define the dynamic language-backed bean.

Each of the supported languages has a corresponding `<lang:language/>` element:

* `<lang:jruby/>` (JRuby)
* `<lang:groovy/>` (Groovy)
* `<lang:bsh/>` (BeanShell)

The exact attributes and child elements that are available for configuration depends on
exactly which language the bean has been defined in (the language-specific sections
below provide the full lowdown on this).


[[dynamic-language-refreshable-beans]]
===== Refreshable beans
One of the (if not __the__) most compelling value adds of the dynamic language support
in Spring is the__'refreshable bean'__ feature.

A refreshable bean is a dynamic-language-backed bean that with a small amount of
configuration, a dynamic-language-backed bean can monitor changes in its underlying
source file resource, and then reload itself when the dynamic language source file is
changed (for example when a developer edits and saves changes to the file on the
filesystem).

This allows a developer to deploy any number of dynamic language source files as part of
an application, configure the Spring container to create beans backed by dynamic
language source files (using the mechanisms described in this chapter), and then later,
as requirements change or some other external factor comes into play, simply edit a
dynamic language source file and have any change they make reflected in the bean that is
backed by the changed dynamic language source file. There is no need to shut down a
running application (or redeploy in the case of a web application). The
dynamic-language-backed bean so amended will pick up the new state and logic from the
changed dynamic language source file.

[NOTE]
====
Please note that this feature is __off__ by default.
====

Let's take a look at an example to see just how easy it is to start using refreshable
beans. To __turn on__ the refreshable beans feature, you simply have to specify exactly
__one__ additional attribute on the `<lang:language/>` element of your bean definition.
So if we stick with <<dynamic-language-a-first-example,the example>> from earlier in this
chapter, here's what we would change in the Spring XML configuration to effect
refreshable beans:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans>

		<!-- this bean is now 'refreshable' due to the presence of the 'refresh-check-delay' attribute -->
		<lang:groovy id="messenger"
				refresh-check-delay="5000" <!-- switches refreshing on with 5 seconds between checks -->
				script-source="classpath:Messenger.groovy">
			<lang:property name="message" value="I Can Do The Frug" />
		</lang:groovy>

		<bean id="bookingService" class="x.y.DefaultBookingService">
			<property name="messenger" ref="messenger" />
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

That really is all you have to do. The `'refresh-check-delay'` attribute defined on the
`'messenger'` bean definition is the number of milliseconds after which the bean will be
refreshed with any changes made to the underlying dynamic language source file. You can
turn off the refresh behavior by assigning a negative value to the
`'refresh-check-delay'` attribute. Remember that, by default, the refresh behavior is
disabled. If you don't want the refresh behavior, then simply don't define the attribute.

If we then run the following application we can exercise the refreshable feature; please
do excuse the __'jumping-through-hoops-to-pause-the-execution'__ shenanigans in this
next slice of code. The `System.in.read()` call is only there so that the execution of
the program pauses while I (the author) go off and edit the underlying dynamic language
source file so that the refresh will trigger on the dynamic-language-backed bean when
the program resumes execution.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
	import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
	import org.springframework.scripting.Messenger;

	public final class Boot {

		public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
			ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("beans.xml");
			Messenger messenger = (Messenger) ctx.getBean("messenger");
			System.out.println(messenger.getMessage());
			// pause execution while I go off and make changes to the source file...
			System.in.read();
			System.out.println(messenger.getMessage());
		}
	}
----

Let's assume then, for the purposes of this example, that all calls to the
`getMessage()` method of `Messenger` implementations have to be changed such that the
message is surrounded by quotes. Below are the changes that I (the author) make to the
`Messenger.groovy` source file when the execution of the program is paused.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.scripting

	class GroovyMessenger implements Messenger {

		private String message = "Bingo"

		public String getMessage() {
			// change the implementation to surround the message in quotes
			return "'" + this.message + "'"
		}

		public void setMessage(String message) {
			this.message = message
		}
	}
----

When the program executes, the output before the input pause will be __I Can Do The
Frug__. After the change to the source file is made and saved, and the program resumes
execution, the result of calling the `getMessage()` method on the
dynamic-language-backed `Messenger` implementation will be __'I Can Do The Frug'__
(notice the inclusion of the additional quotes).

It is important to understand that changes to a script will __not__ trigger a refresh if
the changes occur within the window of the `'refresh-check-delay'` value. It is equally
important to understand that changes to the script are __not__ actually 'picked up' until
a method is called on the dynamic-language-backed bean. It is only when a method is
called on a dynamic-language-backed bean that it checks to see if its underlying script
source has changed. Any exceptions relating to refreshing the script (such as
encountering a compilation error, or finding that the script file has been deleted) will
result in a __fatal__ exception being propagated to the calling code.

The refreshable bean behavior described above does __not__ apply to dynamic language
source files defined using the `<lang:inline-script/>` element notation (see
<<dynamic-language-beans-inline>>). Additionally, it __only__ applies to beans where
changes to the underlying source file can actually be detected; for example, by code
that checks the last modified date of a dynamic language source file that exists on the
filesystem.


[[dynamic-language-beans-inline]]
===== Inline dynamic language source files
The dynamic language support can also cater for dynamic language source files that are
embedded directly in Spring bean definitions. More specifically, the
`<lang:inline-script/>` element allows you to define dynamic language source immediately
inside a Spring configuration file. An example will perhaps make the inline script
feature crystal clear:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<lang:groovy id="messenger">
		<lang:inline-script>

	package org.springframework.scripting.groovy;

	import org.springframework.scripting.Messenger

	class GroovyMessenger implements Messenger {
		String message
	}

		</lang:inline-script>
		<lang:property name="message" value="I Can Do The Frug" />
	</lang:groovy>
----

If we put to one side the issues surrounding whether it is good practice to define
dynamic language source inside a Spring configuration file, the `<lang:inline-script/>`
element can be useful in some scenarios. For instance, we might want to quickly add a
Spring `Validator` implementation to a Spring MVC `Controller`. This is but a moment's
work using inline source. (See <<dynamic-language-scenarios-validators>> for such an
example.)

Find below an example of defining the source for a JRuby-based bean directly in a Spring
XML configuration file using the `inline:` notation. (Notice the use of the &lt;
characters to denote a `'<'` character. In such a case surrounding the inline source in
a `<![CDATA[]]>` region might be better.)

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<lang:jruby id="messenger" script-interfaces="org.springframework.scripting.Messenger">
		<lang:inline-script>

	require 'java'

	include_class 'org.springframework.scripting.Messenger'

	class RubyMessenger &lt; Messenger

		def setMessage(message)
			@@message = message
		end

		def getMessage
			@@message
		end

	end

			</lang:inline-script>
		<lang:property name="message" value="Hello World!" />
	</lang:jruby>
----


[[dynamic-language-beans-ctor-injection]]
===== Understanding Constructor Injection in the context of dynamic-language-backed beans
There is one __very__ important thing to be aware of with regard to Spring's dynamic
language support. Namely, it is not (currently) possible to supply constructor arguments
to dynamic-language-backed beans (and hence constructor-injection is not available for
dynamic-language-backed beans). In the interests of making this special handling of
constructors and properties 100% clear, the following mixture of code and configuration
will __not__ work.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	// from the file 'Messenger.groovy'
	package org.springframework.scripting.groovy;

	import org.springframework.scripting.Messenger

	class GroovyMessenger implements Messenger {

		GroovyMessenger() {}

		// this constructor is not available for Constructor Injection
		GroovyMessenger(String message) {
			this.message = message;
		}

		String message

		String anotherMessage

	}
----

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<lang:groovy id="badMessenger"
		script-source="classpath:Messenger.groovy">
		<!-- this next constructor argument will *not* be injected into the GroovyMessenger -->
		<!-- in fact, this isn't even allowed according to the schema -->
		<constructor-arg value="This will *not* work" />

		<!-- only property values are injected into the dynamic-language-backed object -->
		<lang:property name="anotherMessage" value="Passed straight through to the dynamic-language-backed object" />

	</lang>
----

In practice this limitation is not as significant as it first appears since setter
injection is the injection style favored by the overwhelming majority of developers
anyway (let's leave the discussion as to whether that is a good thing to another day).



[[dynamic-language-beans-jruby]]
==== JRuby beans

.The JRuby library dependencies
****
The JRuby scripting support in Spring requires the following libraries to be on the
classpath of your application.

* `jruby.jar`
****

From the JRuby homepage...

"__JRuby is an 100% pure-Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.__"

In keeping with the Spring philosophy of offering choice, Spring's dynamic language
support also supports beans defined in the JRuby language. The JRuby language is based
on the quite intuitive Ruby language, and has support for inline regular expressions,
blocks (closures), and a whole host of other features that do make solutions for some
domain problems a whole lot easier to develop.

The implementation of the JRuby dynamic language support in Spring is interesting in
that what happens is this: Spring creates a JDK dynamic proxy implementing all of the
interfaces that are specified in the `'script-interfaces'` attribute value of the
`<lang:ruby>` element (this is why you __must__ supply at least one interface in the
value of the attribute, and (accordingly) program to interfaces when using JRuby-backed
beans).

Let us look at a fully working example of using a JRuby-based bean. Here is the JRuby
implementation of the `Messenger` interface that was defined earlier in this chapter
(for your convenience it is repeated below).

[source,ruby,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.scripting;

	public interface Messenger {

		String getMessage();

	}
----

[source,ruby,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	require 'java'

	class RubyMessenger
		include org.springframework.scripting.Messenger

		def setMessage(message)
			@@message = message
		end

		def getMessage
			@@message
		end
	end

	# this last line is not essential (but see below)
	RubyMessenger.new
----

And here is the Spring XML that defines an instance of the `RubyMessenger` JRuby bean.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<lang:jruby id="messageService"
			script-interfaces="org.springframework.scripting.Messenger"
			script-source="classpath:RubyMessenger.rb">

		<lang:property name="message" value="Hello World!" />

	</lang:jruby>
----

Take note of the last line of that JRuby source ( `'RubyMessenger.new'`). When using
JRuby in the context of Spring's dynamic language support, you are encouraged to
instantiate and return a new instance of the JRuby class that you want to use as a
dynamic-language-backed bean as the result of the execution of your JRuby source. You
can achieve this by simply instantiating a new instance of your JRuby class on the last
line of the source file like so:

[source,ruby,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	require 'java'

	include_class 'org.springframework.scripting.Messenger'

	# class definition same as above...

	# instantiate and return a new instance of the RubyMessenger class
	RubyMessenger.new
----

If you forget to do this, it is not the end of the world; this will however result in
Spring having to trawl (reflectively) through the type representation of your JRuby
class looking for a class to instantiate. In the grand scheme of things this will be so
fast that you'll never notice it, but it is something that can be avoided by simply
having a line such as the one above as the last line of your JRuby script. If you don't
supply such a line, or if Spring cannot find a JRuby class in your script to instantiate
then an opaque `ScriptCompilationException` will be thrown immediately after the source
is executed by the JRuby interpreter. The key text that identifies this as the root
cause of an exception can be found immediately below (so if your Spring container throws
the following exception when creating your dynamic-language-backed bean and the
following text is there in the corresponding stacktrace, this will hopefully allow you
to identify and then easily rectify the issue):

[literal]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
org.springframework.scripting.ScriptCompilationException: Compilation of JRuby script returned ''
----

To rectify this, simply instantiate a new instance of whichever class you want to expose
as a JRuby-dynamic-language-backed bean (as shown above). Please also note that you can
actually define as many classes and objects as you want in your JRuby script; what is
important is that the source file as a whole must return an object (for Spring to
configure).

See <<dynamic-language-scenarios>> for some scenarios where you might want to use
JRuby-based beans.



[[dynamic-language-beans-groovy]]
==== Groovy beans

.The Groovy library dependencies
****

The Groovy scripting support in Spring requires the following libraries to be on the
classpath of your application.

* `groovy-1.8.jar`
* `asm-3.2.jar`
* `antlr-2.7.7.jar`
****

From the Groovy homepage...

"__Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java 2 Platform that has many of the
features that people like so much in languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making
them available to Java developers using a Java-like syntax. __"

If you have read this chapter straight from the top, you will already have
<<dynamic-language-a-first-example,seen an example>> of a Groovy-dynamic-language-backed
bean. Let's look at another example (again using an example from the Spring test suite).

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.scripting;

	public interface Calculator {

		int add(int x, int y);

	}
----

Here is an implementation of the `Calculator` interface in Groovy.

[source,groovy,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	// from the file 'calculator.groovy'
	package org.springframework.scripting.groovy

	class GroovyCalculator implements Calculator {

		int add(int x, int y) {
			x + y
		}

	}
----

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<-- from the file 'beans.xml' -->
	<beans>
		<lang:groovy id="calculator" script-source="classpath:calculator.groovy"/>
	</beans>
----

Lastly, here is a small application to exercise the above configuration.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.scripting;

	import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
	import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

	public class Main {

		public static void Main(String[] args) {
			ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("beans.xml");
			Calculator calc = (Calculator) ctx.getBean("calculator");
			System.out.println(calc.add(2, 8));
		}
	}
----

The resulting output from running the above program will be (unsurprisingly) __10__.
(Exciting example, huh? Remember that the intent is to illustrate the concept. Please
consult the dynamic language showcase project for a more complex example, or indeed
<<dynamic-language-scenarios>> later in this chapter).

It is important that you __do not__ define more than one class per Groovy source file.
While this is perfectly legal in Groovy, it is (arguably) a bad practice: in the
interests of a consistent approach, you should (in the opinion of this author) respect
the standard Java conventions of one (public) class per source file.


[[dynamic-language-beans-groovy-customizer]]
===== Customizing Groovy objects via a callback
The `GroovyObjectCustomizer` interface is a callback that allows you to hook additional
creation logic into the process of creating a Groovy-backed bean. For example,
implementations of this interface could invoke any required initialization method(s), or
set some default property values, or specify a custom `MetaClass`.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public interface GroovyObjectCustomizer {

		void customize(GroovyObject goo);
	}
----

The Spring Framework will instantiate an instance of your Groovy-backed bean, and will
then pass the created `GroovyObject` to the specified `GroovyObjectCustomizer` if one
has been defined. You can do whatever you like with the supplied `GroovyObject`
reference: it is expected that the setting of a custom `MetaClass` is what most folks
will want to do with this callback, and you can see an example of doing that below.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	public final class SimpleMethodTracingCustomizer implements GroovyObjectCustomizer {

		public void customize(GroovyObject goo) {
			DelegatingMetaClass metaClass = new DelegatingMetaClass(goo.getMetaClass()) {

				public Object invokeMethod(Object object, String methodName, Object[] arguments) {
					System.out.println("Invoking '" + methodName + "'.");
					return super.invokeMethod(object, methodName, arguments);
				}
			};
			metaClass.initialize();
			goo.setMetaClass(metaClass);
		}

	}
----

A full discussion of meta-programming in Groovy is beyond the scope of the Spring
reference manual. Consult the relevant section of the Groovy reference manual, or do a
search online: there are plenty of articles concerning this topic. Actually making use
of a `GroovyObjectCustomizer` is easy if you are using the Spring namespace support.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<!-- define the GroovyObjectCustomizer just like any other bean -->
	<bean id="tracingCustomizer" class="example.SimpleMethodTracingCustomizer"/>

		<!-- ... and plug it into the desired Groovy bean via the 'customizer-ref' attribute -->
		<lang:groovy id="calculator"
			script-source="classpath:org/springframework/scripting/groovy/Calculator.groovy"
			customizer-ref="tracingCustomizer"/>
----

If you are not using the Spring namespace support, you can still use the
`GroovyObjectCustomizer` functionality.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="calculator" class="org.springframework.scripting.groovy.GroovyScriptFactory">
		<constructor-arg value="classpath:org/springframework/scripting/groovy/Calculator.groovy"/>
		<!-- define the GroovyObjectCustomizer (as an inner bean) -->
		<constructor-arg>
			<bean id="tracingCustomizer" class="example.SimpleMethodTracingCustomizer"/>
		</constructor-arg>
	</bean>

	<bean class="org.springframework.scripting.support.ScriptFactoryPostProcessor"/>
----

[NOTE]
====
As of Spring Framework 4.3.3, you may also specify a Groovy `CompilationCustomizer`
(such as an `ImportCustomizer`) or even a full Groovy `CompilerConfiguration` object
in the same place as Spring's `GroovyObjectCustomizer`.
====



[[dynamic-language-beans-bsh]]
==== BeanShell beans

.The BeanShell library dependencies
****

The BeanShell scripting support in Spring requires the following libraries to be on the
classpath of your application.

* `bsh-2.0b4.jar`
****

From the BeanShell homepage...

"__BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable Java source interpreter with dynamic language
features, written in Java. BeanShell dynamically executes standard Java syntax and
extends it with common scripting conveniences such as loose types, commands, and method
closures like those in Perl and JavaScript.__"

In contrast to Groovy, BeanShell-backed bean definitions require some (small) additional
configuration. The implementation of the BeanShell dynamic language support in Spring is
interesting in that what happens is this: Spring creates a JDK dynamic proxy
implementing all of the interfaces that are specified in the `'script-interfaces'`
attribute value of the `<lang:bsh>` element (this is why you __must__ supply at least
one interface in the value of the attribute, and (accordingly) program to interfaces
when using BeanShell-backed beans). This means that every method call on a
BeanShell-backed object is going through the JDK dynamic proxy invocation mechanism.

Let's look at a fully working example of using a BeanShell-based bean that implements
the `Messenger` interface that was defined earlier in this chapter (repeated below for
your convenience).

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	package org.springframework.scripting;

	public interface Messenger {

		String getMessage();

	}
----

Here is the BeanShell 'implementation' (the term is used loosely here) of the
`Messenger` interface.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	String message;

	String getMessage() {
		return message;
	}

	void setMessage(String aMessage) {
		message = aMessage;
	}
----

And here is the Spring XML that defines an 'instance' of the above 'class' (again, the
term is used very loosely here).

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<lang:bsh id="messageService" script-source="classpath:BshMessenger.bsh"
		script-interfaces="org.springframework.scripting.Messenger">

		<lang:property name="message" value="Hello World!" />
	</lang:bsh>
----

See <<dynamic-language-scenarios>> for some scenarios where you might want to use
BeanShell-based beans.




[[dynamic-language-scenarios]]
=== Scenarios
The possible scenarios where defining Spring managed beans in a scripting language would
be beneficial are, of course, many and varied. This section describes two possible use
cases for the dynamic language support in Spring.



[[dynamic-language-scenarios-controllers]]
==== Scripted Spring MVC Controllers
One group of classes that may benefit from using dynamic-language-backed beans is that
of Spring MVC controllers. In pure Spring MVC applications, the navigational flow
through a web application is to a large extent determined by code encapsulated within
your Spring MVC controllers. As the navigational flow and other presentation layer logic
of a web application needs to be updated to respond to support issues or changing
business requirements, it may well be easier to effect any such required changes by
editing one or more dynamic language source files and seeing those changes being
immediately reflected in the state of a running application.

Remember that in the lightweight architectural model espoused by projects such as
Spring, you are typically aiming to have a really __thin__ presentation layer, with all
the meaty business logic of an application being contained in the domain and service
layer classes. Developing Spring MVC controllers as dynamic-language-backed beans allows
you to change presentation layer logic by simply editing and saving text files; any
changes to such dynamic language source files will (depending on the configuration)
automatically be reflected in the beans that are backed by dynamic language source files.

[NOTE]
====
In order to effect this automatic 'pickup' of any changes to dynamic-language-backed
beans, you will have had to enable the 'refreshable beans' functionality. See
<<dynamic-language-refreshable-beans>> for a full treatment of this feature.
====

Find below an example of an `org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.Controller` implemented
using the Groovy dynamic language.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	// from the file '/WEB-INF/groovy/FortuneController.groovy'
	package org.springframework.showcase.fortune.web

	import org.springframework.showcase.fortune.service.FortuneService
	import org.springframework.showcase.fortune.domain.Fortune
	import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView
	import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.Controller

	import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest
	import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse

	class FortuneController implements Controller {

		@Property FortuneService fortuneService

		ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request,
				HttpServletResponse httpServletResponse) {
			return new ModelAndView("tell", "fortune", this.fortuneService.tellFortune())
		}

	}
----

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<lang:groovy id="fortune"
			refresh-check-delay="3000"
			script-source="/WEB-INF/groovy/FortuneController.groovy">
		<lang:property name="fortuneService" ref="fortuneService"/>
	</lang:groovy>
----



[[dynamic-language-scenarios-validators]]
==== Scripted Validators
Another area of application development with Spring that may benefit from the
flexibility afforded by dynamic-language-backed beans is that of validation. It __may__
be easier to express complex validation logic using a loosely typed dynamic language
(that may also have support for inline regular expressions) as opposed to regular Java.

Again, developing validators as dynamic-language-backed beans allows you to change
validation logic by simply editing and saving a simple text file; any such changes will
(depending on the configuration) automatically be reflected in the execution of a
running application and would not require the restart of an application.

[NOTE]
====
Please note that in order to effect the automatic 'pickup' of any changes to
dynamic-language-backed beans, you will have had to enable the 'refreshable beans'
feature. See <<dynamic-language-refreshable-beans>> for a full and detailed treatment of
this feature.
====

Find below an example of a Spring `org.springframework.validation.Validator` implemented
using the Groovy dynamic language. (See <<validator>> for a discussion of the
`Validator` interface.)

[source,groovy,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	import org.springframework.validation.Validator
	import org.springframework.validation.Errors
	import org.springframework.beans.TestBean

	class TestBeanValidator implements Validator {

		boolean supports(Class clazz) {
			return TestBean.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
		}

		void validate(Object bean, Errors errors) {
			if(bean.name?.trim()?.size() > 0) {
				return
			}
			errors.reject("whitespace", "Cannot be composed wholly of whitespace.")
		}

	}
----




[[dynamic-language-final-notes]]
=== Bits and bobs
This last section contains some bits and bobs related to the dynamic language support.



[[dynamic-language-final-notes-aop]]
==== AOP - advising scripted beans
It is possible to use the Spring AOP framework to advise scripted beans. The Spring AOP
framework actually is unaware that a bean that is being advised might be a scripted
bean, so all of the AOP use cases and functionality that you may be using or aim to use
will work with scripted beans. There is just one (small) thing that you need to be aware
of when advising scripted beans... you cannot use class-based proxies, you must
use <<aop-proxying,interface-based proxies>>.

You are of course not just limited to advising scripted beans... you can also write
aspects themselves in a supported dynamic language and use such beans to advise other
Spring beans. This really would be an advanced use of the dynamic language support
though.



[[dynamic-language-final-notes-scopes]]
==== Scoping
In case it is not immediately obvious, scripted beans can of course be scoped just like
any other bean. The `scope` attribute on the various `<lang:language/>` elements allows
you to control the scope of the underlying scripted bean, just as it does with a regular
bean. (The default scope is <<beans-factory-scopes-singleton,singleton>>, just as it is
with 'regular' beans.)

Find below an example of using the `scope` attribute to define a Groovy bean scoped as
a <<beans-factory-scopes-prototype,prototype>>.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
		xsi:schemaLocation="
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd">

		<lang:groovy id="messenger" script-source="classpath:Messenger.groovy" scope="prototype">
			<lang:property name="message" value="I Can Do The RoboCop" />
		</lang:groovy>

		<bean id="bookingService" class="x.y.DefaultBookingService">
			<property name="messenger" ref="messenger" />
		</bean>

	</beans>
----

See <<beans-factory-scopes>> in <<beans>> for a fuller discussion of the scoping support
in the Spring Framework.




[[dynamic-language-resources]]
=== Further Resources
Find below links to further resources about the various dynamic languages described in
this chapter.

* The http://jruby.org/[JRuby] homepage
* The http://www.groovy-lang.org/[Groovy] homepage
* The http://www.beanshell.org/[BeanShell] homepage


[[cache]]
== Cache Abstraction



[[cache-introduction]]
=== Introduction
Since version 3.1, Spring Framework provides support for transparently adding caching
into an existing Spring application. Similar to the <<transaction,transaction>> support,
the caching abstraction allows consistent use of various caching solutions with minimal
impact on the code.

As from Spring 4.1, the cache abstraction has been significantly improved with the
support of <<cache-jsr-107,JSR-107 annotations>> and more customization options.



[[cache-strategies]]
=== Understanding the cache abstraction
.Cache vs Buffer
****

The terms "buffer" and "cache" tend to be used interchangeably; note however they
represent different things. A buffer is used traditionally as an intermediate temporary
store for data between a fast and a slow entity. As one party would have to __wait__ for
the other affecting performance, the buffer alleviates this by allowing entire blocks of
data to move at once rather then in small chunks. The data is written and read only once
from the buffer. Furthermore, the buffers are __visible__ to at least one party which is
aware of it.

A cache on the other hand by definition is hidden and neither party is aware that
caching occurs.It as well improves performance but does that by allowing the same data
to be read multiple times in a fast fashion.

A further explanation of the differences between two can be found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_(computing)#The_difference_between_buffer_and_cache[here].
****

At its core, the abstraction applies caching to Java methods, reducing thus the number
of executions based on the information available in the cache. That is, each time a
__targeted__ method is invoked, the abstraction will apply a caching behavior checking
whether the method has been already executed for the given arguments. If it has, then
the cached result is returned without having to execute the actual method; if it has
not, then method is executed, the result cached and returned to the user so that, the
next time the method is invoked, the cached result is returned. This way, expensive
methods (whether CPU or IO bound) can be executed only once for a given set of
parameters and the result reused without having to actually execute the method again.
The caching logic is applied transparently without any interference to the invoker.

[IMPORTANT]
====

Obviously this approach works only for methods that are guaranteed to return the same
output (result) for a given input (or arguments) no matter how many times it is being
executed.
====

Other cache-related operations are provided by the abstraction such as the ability
to update the content of the cache or remove one of all entries. These are useful if
the cache deals with data that can change during the course of the application.

Just like other services in the Spring Framework, the caching service is an
abstraction (not a cache implementation) and requires the use of an actual storage to
store the cache data - that is, the abstraction frees the developer from having to write
the caching logic but does not provide the actual stores. This abstraction is
materialized by the `org.springframework.cache.Cache` and
`org.springframework.cache.CacheManager` interfaces.

There are <<cache-store-configuration,a few implementations>> of that abstraction
available out of the box: JDK `java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap` based caches,
http://ehcache.org/[Ehcache 2.x], Gemfire cache,
https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki[Caffeine],
https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/CachesExplained[Guava caches] and
JSR-107 compliant caches (e.g. Ehcache 3.x). See <<cache-plug>> for more information
on plugging in other cache stores/providers.

[IMPORTANT]
====
The caching abstraction has no special handling of multi-threaded and multi-process
environments as such features are handled by the cache implementation. .
====

If you have a multi-process environment (i.e. an application deployed on several nodes),
you will need to configure your cache provider accordingly. Depending on your use cases,
a copy of the same data on several nodes may be enough but if you change the data during
the course of the application, you may need to enable other propagation mechanisms.

Caching a particular item is a direct equivalent of the typical get-if-not-found-then-
proceed-and-put-eventually code blocks found with programmatic cache interaction: no locks
are applied and several threads may try to load the same item concurrently. The same applies
to eviction: if several threads are trying to update or evict data concurrently, you may
use stale data. Certain cache providers offer advanced features in that area, refer to
the documentation of the cache provider that you are using for more details.

To use the cache abstraction, the developer needs to take care of two aspects:

* caching declaration - identify the methods that need to be cached and their policy
* cache configuration - the backing cache where the data is stored and read from


[[cache-annotations]]
=== Declarative annotation-based caching
For caching declaration, the abstraction provides a set of Java annotations:

* `@Cacheable` triggers cache population
* `@CacheEvict` triggers cache eviction
* `@CachePut` updates the cache without interfering with the method execution
* `@Caching` regroups multiple cache operations to be applied on a method
* `@CacheConfig` shares some common cache-related settings at class-level

Let us take a closer look at each annotation:

[[cache-annotations-cacheable]]
==== @Cacheable annotation

As the name implies, `@Cacheable` is used to demarcate methods that are cacheable - that
is, methods for whom the result is stored into the cache so on subsequent invocations
(with the same arguments), the value in the cache is returned without having to actually
execute the method. In its simplest form, the annotation declaration requires the name
of the cache associated with the annotated method:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable("books")
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn) {...}
----

In the snippet above, the method `findBook` is associated with the cache named `books`.
Each time the method is called, the cache is checked to see whether the invocation has
been already executed and does not have to be repeated. While in most cases, only one
cache is declared, the annotation allows multiple names to be specified so that more
than one cache are being used. In this case, each of the caches will be checked before
executing the method - if at least one cache is hit, then the associated value will be
returned:

[NOTE]
====
All the other caches that do not contain the value will be updated as well even though
the cached method was not actually executed.
====

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable({"books", "isbns"})
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn) {...}
----


[[cache-annotations-cacheable-default-key]]
===== Default Key Generation
Since caches are essentially key-value stores, each invocation of a cached method needs
to be translated into a suitable key for cache access. Out of the box, the caching
abstraction uses a simple `KeyGenerator` based on the following algorithm:

* If no params are given, return `SimpleKey.EMPTY`.
* If only one param is given, return that instance.
* If more the one param is given, return a `SimpleKey` containing all parameters.

This approach works well for most use-cases; As long as parameters have __natural keys__
and implement valid `hashCode()` and `equals()` methods. If that is not the case then the
strategy needs to be changed.

To provide a different __default__ key generator, one needs to implement the
`org.springframework.cache.interceptor.KeyGenerator` interface.


[NOTE]
====
The default key generation strategy changed with the release of Spring 4.0. Earlier
versions of Spring used a key generation strategy that, for multiple key parameters,
only considered the `hashCode()` of parameters and not `equals()`; this could cause
unexpected key collisions (see https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-10237[SPR-10237]
for background). The new 'SimpleKeyGenerator' uses a compound key for such scenarios.

If you want to keep using the previous key strategy, you can configure the deprecated
`org.springframework.cache.interceptor.DefaultKeyGenerator` class or create a custom
hash-based 'KeyGenerator' implementation.
====


[[cache-annotations-cacheable-key]]
===== Custom Key Generation Declaration
Since caching is generic, it is quite likely the target methods have various signatures
that cannot be simply mapped on top of the cache structure. This tends to become obvious
when the target method has multiple arguments out of which only some are suitable for
caching (while the rest are used only by the method logic). For example:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable("books")
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)
----

At first glance, while the two `boolean` arguments influence the way the book is found,
they are no use for the cache. Further more what if only one of the two is important
while the other is not?

For such cases, the `@Cacheable` annotation allows the user to specify how the key is
generated through its `key` attribute. The developer can use <<expressions,SpEL>> to
pick the arguments of interest (or their nested properties), perform operations or even
invoke arbitrary methods without having to write any code or implement any interface.
This is the recommended approach over the
<<cache-annotations-cacheable-default-key,default generator>> since methods tend to be
quite different in signatures as the code base grows; while the default strategy might
work for some methods, it rarely does for all methods.

Below are some examples of various SpEL declarations - if you are not familiar with it,
do yourself a favor and read <<expressions>>:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="books", **key="#isbn"**)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)

	@Cacheable(cacheNames="books", **key="#isbn.rawNumber"**)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)

	@Cacheable(cacheNames="books", **key="T(someType).hash(#isbn)"**)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)
----

The snippets above show how easy it is to select a certain argument, one of its
properties or even an arbitrary (static) method.

If the algorithm responsible to generate the key is too specific or if it needs
to be shared, you may define a custom `keyGenerator` on the operation. To do
this, specify the name of the `KeyGenerator` bean implementation to use:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="books", **keyGenerator="myKeyGenerator"**)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)
----


[NOTE]
====
The `key` and `keyGenerator` parameters are mutually exclusive and an operation
specifying both will result in an exception.
====

[[cache-annotations-cacheable-default-cache-resolver]]
===== Default Cache Resolution

Out of the box, the caching abstraction uses a simple `CacheResolver` that
retrieves the cache(s) defined at the operation level using the configured
`CacheManager`.

To provide a different __default__ cache resolver, one needs to implement the
`org.springframework.cache.interceptor.CacheResolver` interface.


[[cache-annotations-cacheable-cache-resolver]]
===== Custom cache resolution

The default cache resolution fits well for applications working with a
single `CacheManager` and with no complex cache resolution requirements.

For applications working with several cache managers, it is possible
to set the `cacheManager` to use per operation:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="books", **cacheManager="anotherCacheManager"**)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn) {...}
----

It is also possible to replace the `CacheResolver` entirely in a similar
fashion as for <<cache-annotations-cacheable-key,key generation>>. The
resolution is requested for every cache operation, giving a chance to
the implementation to actually resolve the cache(s) to use based on
runtime arguments:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(**cacheResolver="runtimeCacheResolver"**)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn) {...}
----

[NOTE]
====
Since Spring 4.1, the `value` attribute of the cache annotations are no longer
mandatory since this particular information can be provided by the `CacheResolver`
regardless of the content of the annotation.

Similarly to `key` and `keyGenerator`, the `cacheManager` and `cacheResolver`
parameters are mutually exclusive and an operation specifying both will
result in an exception as a custom `CacheManager` will be ignored by the
`CacheResolver` implementation. This is probably not what you expect.
====

[[cache-annotations-cacheable-synchronized]]
===== Synchronized caching
In a multi-threaded environment, certain operations might be concurrently invoked for
the same argument (typically on startup). By default, the cache abstraction does not
lock anything and the same value may be computed several times, defeating the purpose
of caching.

For those particular cases, the `sync` attribute can be used to instruct the underlying
cache provider to _lock_ the cache entry while the value is being computed. As a result,
only one thread will be busy computing the value while the others are blocked until the
entry is updated in the cache.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="foos", **sync="true"**)
	public Foo executeExpensiveOperation(String id) {...}
----

[NOTE]
====
This is an optional feature and your favorite cache library may not support it. All
`CacheManager` implementations provided by the core framework support it. Check the
documentation of your cache provider for more details.
====


[[cache-annotations-cacheable-condition]]
===== Conditional caching
Sometimes, a method might not be suitable for caching all the time (for example, it
might depend on the given arguments). The cache annotations support such functionality
through the `condition` parameter which takes a `SpEL` expression that is evaluated to
either `true` or `false`. If `true`, the method is cached - if not, it behaves as if the
method is not cached, that is executed every time no matter what values are in the cache
or what arguments are used. A quick example - the following method will be cached only
if the argument `name` has a length shorter than 32:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="book", **condition="#name.length < 32"**)
	public Book findBook(String name)
----

In addition the `condition` parameter, the `unless` parameter can be used to veto the
adding of a value to the cache. Unlike `condition`, `unless` expressions are evaluated
__after__ the method has been called. Expanding on the previous example - perhaps we
only want to cache paperback books:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="book", condition="#name.length < 32", **unless="#result.hardback"**)
	public Book findBook(String name)
----

The cache abstraction supports `java.util.Optional`, using its content as cached value
only if it present. `#result` always refers to the business entity and never on a
supported wrapper so the previous example can be rewritten as follows:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="book", condition="#name.length < 32", **unless="#result.hardback"**)
	public Optional<Book> findBook(String name)
----

Note that `result` still refers to `Book` and not `Optional`.

[[cache-spel-context]]
===== Available caching SpEL evaluation context

Each `SpEL` expression evaluates again a dedicated
<<expressions-language-ref,`context`>>. In addition to the build in parameters, the
framework provides dedicated caching related metadata such as the argument names. The
next table lists the items made available to the context so one can use them for key and
conditional computations:

[[cache-spel-context-tbl]]
.Cache SpEL available metadata
|===
| Name| Location| Description| Example

| methodName
| root object
| The name of the method being invoked
| `#root.methodName`

| method
| root object
| The method being invoked
| `#root.method.name`

| target
| root object
| The target object being invoked
| `#root.target`

| targetClass
| root object
| The class of the target being invoked
| `#root.targetClass`

| args
| root object
| The arguments (as array) used for invoking the target
| `#root.args[0]`

| caches
| root object
| Collection of caches against which the current method is executed
| `#root.caches[0].name`

| __argument name__
| evaluation context
| Name of any of the method arguments. If for some reason the names are not available
  (e.g. no debug information), the argument names are also available under the `#a<#arg>`
  where __#arg__ stands for the argument index (starting from 0).
| `#iban` or `#a0` (one can also use `#p0` or `#p<#arg>` notation as an alias).

| result
| evaluation context
| The result of the method call (the value to be cached). Only available in `unless`
  expressions, `cache put` expressions (to compute the `key`), or `cache evict`
  expressions (when `beforeInvocation` is `false`). For supported wrappers such as
  `Optional`, `#result` refers to the actual object, not the wrapper.
| `#result`
|===


[[cache-annotations-put]]
==== @CachePut annotation

For cases where the cache needs to be updated without interfering with the method
execution, one can use the `@CachePut` annotation. That is, the method will always be
executed and its result placed into the cache (according to the `@CachePut` options). It
supports the same options as `@Cacheable` and should be used for cache population rather
than method flow optimization:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@CachePut(cacheNames="book", key="#isbn")
	public Book updateBook(ISBN isbn, BookDescriptor descriptor)
----


[IMPORTANT]
====
Note that using `@CachePut` and `@Cacheable` annotations on the same method is generally
strongly discouraged because they have different behaviors. While the latter causes the
method execution to be skipped by using the cache, the former forces the execution in
order to execute a cache update. This leads to unexpected behavior and with the exception of
specific corner-cases (such as annotations having conditions that exclude them from each
other), such declaration should be avoided. Note also that such condition should not rely
on the result object (i.e. the `#result` variable) as these are validated upfront to confirm
the exclusion.
====


[[cache-annotations-evict]]
==== @CacheEvict annotation

The cache abstraction allows not just population of a cache store but also eviction.
This process is useful for removing stale or unused data from the cache. Opposed to
`@Cacheable`, annotation `@CacheEvict` demarcates methods that perform cache
__eviction__, that is methods that act as triggers for removing data from the cache.
Just like its sibling, `@CacheEvict` requires specifying one (or multiple) caches
that are affected by the action, allows a custom cache and key resolution or a
condition to be specified but in addition, features an extra parameter
`allEntries` which indicates whether a cache-wide eviction needs to be performed
rather then just an entry one (based on the key):

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@CacheEvict(cacheNames="books", **allEntries=true**)
	public void loadBooks(InputStream batch)
----

This option comes in handy when an entire cache region needs to be cleared out - rather
then evicting each entry (which would take a long time since it is inefficient), all the
entries are removed in one operation as shown above. Note that the framework will ignore
any key specified in this scenario as it does not apply (the entire cache is evicted not
just one entry).

One can also indicate whether the eviction should occur after (the default) or before
the method executes through the `beforeInvocation` attribute. The former provides the
same semantics as the rest of the annotations - once the method completes successfully,
an action (in this case eviction) on the cache is executed. If the method does not
execute (as it might be cached) or an exception is thrown, the eviction does not occur.
The latter ( `beforeInvocation=true`) causes the eviction to occur always, before the
method is invoked - this is useful in cases where the eviction does not need to be tied
to the method outcome.

It is important to note that void methods can be used with `@CacheEvict` - as the
methods act as triggers, the return values are ignored (as they don't interact with the
cache) - this is not the case with `@Cacheable` which adds/updates data into the cache
and thus requires a result.



[[cache-annotations-caching]]
==== @Caching annotation

There are cases when multiple annotations of the same type, such as `@CacheEvict` or
`@CachePut` need to be specified, for example because the condition or the key
expression is different between different caches. `@Caching` allows multiple nested
`@Cacheable`, `@CachePut` and `@CacheEvict` to be used on the same method:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Caching(evict = { @CacheEvict("primary"), @CacheEvict(cacheNames="secondary", key="#p0") })
	public Book importBooks(String deposit, Date date)
----


[[cache-annotations-config]]
==== @CacheConfig annotation

So far we have seen that caching operations offered many customization options and
these can be set on an operation basis. However, some of the customization options
can be tedious to configure if they apply to all operations of the class. For
instance, specifying the name of the cache to use for every cache operation of the
class could be replaced by a single class-level definition. This is where `@CacheConfig`
comes into play.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	**@CacheConfig("books")**
	public class BookRepositoryImpl implements BookRepository {

		@Cacheable
		public Book findBook(ISBN isbn) {...}
	}
----

`@CacheConfig` is a class-level annotation that allows to share the cache names, the custom
`KeyGenerator`, the custom `CacheManager` and finally the custom `CacheResolver`. Placing
this annotation on the class does not turn on any caching operation.

An operation-level customization will always override a customization set on `@CacheConfig`. This
gives therefore three levels of customizations per cache operation:

* Globally configured, available for `CacheManager`, `KeyGenerator`
* At class level, using `@CacheConfig`
* At the operation level

[[cache-annotation-enable]]
==== Enable caching annotations
It is important to note that even though declaring the cache annotations does not
automatically trigger their actions - like many things in Spring, the feature has to be
declaratively enabled (which means if you ever suspect caching is to blame, you can
disable it by removing only one configuration line rather than all the annotations in
your code).

To enable caching annotations add the annotation `@EnableCaching` to one of your
`@Configuration` classes:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Configuration
	@EnableCaching
	public class AppConfig {
	}
----

Alternatively for XML configuration use the `cache:annotation-driven` element:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
		xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache"
		xsi:schemaLocation="
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
			http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache.xsd">

			<cache:annotation-driven />

	</beans>
----

Both the `cache:annotation-driven` element and `@EnableCaching` annotation allow various
options to be specified that influence the way the caching behavior is added to the
application through AOP. The configuration is intentionally similar with that of
<<tx-annotation-driven-settings, `@Transactional`>>:

[NOTE]
====
Advanced customizations using Java config require to implement `CachingConfigurer`, refer
to {api-spring-framework}/cache/annotation/CachingConfigurer.html[the
javadoc for more details].
====

[[cache-annotation-driven-settings]]
.Cache annotation settings
[cols="1,1,1,3"]
|===
| XML Attribute| Annotation Attribute| Default| Description

| `cache-manager`
| N/A (See `CachingConfigurer` javadocs)
| cacheManager
| Name of cache manager to use. A default `CacheResolver` will be initialized behind
  the scenes with this cache manager (or `cacheManager`if not set). For more
  fine-grained management of the cache resolution, consider setting the 'cache-resolver'
  attribute.

| `cache-resolver`
| N/A (See `CachingConfigurer` javadocs)
| A `SimpleCacheResolver` using the configured `cacheManager`.
| The bean name of the CacheResolver that is to be used to resolve the backing caches.
  This attribute is not required, and only needs to be specified as an alternative to
  the 'cache-manager' attribute.

| `key-generator`
| N/A (See `CachingConfigurer` javadocs)
| `SimpleKeyGenerator`
| Name of the custom key generator to use.

| `error-handler`
| N/A (See `CachingConfigurer` javadocs)
| `SimpleCacheErrorHandler`
| Name of the custom cache error handler to use. By default, any exception throw during
  a cache related operations are thrown back at the client.

| `mode`
| `mode`
| proxy
| The default mode "proxy" processes annotated beans to be proxied using Spring's AOP
  framework (following proxy semantics, as discussed above, applying to method calls
  coming in through the proxy only). The alternative mode "aspectj" instead weaves the
  affected classes with Spring's AspectJ caching aspect, modifying the target class byte
  code to apply to any kind of method call. AspectJ weaving requires spring-aspects.jar
  in the classpath as well as load-time weaving (or compile-time weaving) enabled. (See
  <<aop-aj-ltw-spring>> for details on how to set up load-time weaving.)

| `proxy-target-class`
| `proxyTargetClass`
| false
| Applies to proxy mode only. Controls what type of caching proxies are created for
  classes annotated with the `@Cacheable` or `@CacheEvict` annotations. If the
  `proxy-target-class` attribute is set to `true`, then class-based proxies are created.
  If `proxy-target-class` is `false` or if the attribute is omitted, then standard JDK
  interface-based proxies are created. (See <<aop-proxying>> for a detailed examination
  of the different proxy types.)

| `order`
| `order`
| Ordered.LOWEST_PRECEDENCE
| Defines the order of the cache advice that is applied to beans annotated with
  `@Cacheable` or `@CacheEvict`. (For more information about the rules related to
  ordering of AOP advice, see <<aop-ataspectj-advice-ordering>>.) No specified ordering
  means that the AOP subsystem determines the order of the advice.
|===

[NOTE]
====
`<cache:annotation-driven/>` only looks for `@Cacheable/@CachePut/@CacheEvict/@Caching`
on beans in the same application context it is defined in. This means that, if you put
`<cache:annotation-driven/>` in a `WebApplicationContext` for a `DispatcherServlet`, it
only checks for beans in your controllers, and not your services. See <<mvc-servlet>>
for more information.
====

.Method visibility and cache annotations
****
When using proxies, you should apply the cache annotations only to methods with
__public__ visibility. If you do annotate protected, private or package-visible methods
with these annotations, no error is raised, but the annotated method does not exhibit
the configured caching settings. Consider the use of AspectJ (see below) if you need to
annotate non-public methods as it changes the bytecode itself.
****

[TIP]
====
Spring recommends that you only annotate concrete classes (and methods of concrete
classes) with the `@Cache{asterisk}` annotation, as opposed to annotating interfaces. You
certainly can place the `@Cache{asterisk}` annotation on an interface (or an interface method),
but this works only as you would expect it to if you are using interface-based proxies.
The fact that Java annotations are __not inherited from interfaces__ means that if you
are using class-based proxies ( `proxy-target-class="true"`) or the weaving-based aspect
( `mode="aspectj"`), then the caching settings are not recognized by the proxying and
weaving infrastructure, and the object will not be wrapped in a caching proxy, which
would be decidedly __bad__.
====

[NOTE]
====
In proxy mode (which is the default), only external method calls coming in through the
proxy are intercepted. This means that self-invocation, in effect, a method within the
target object calling another method of the target object, will not lead to an actual
caching at runtime even if the invoked method is marked with `@Cacheable` - considering
using the aspectj mode in this case. Also, the proxy must be fully initialized to provide
the expected behaviour so you should not rely on this feature in your initialization
code, i.e. `@PostConstruct`.
====



[[cache-annotation-stereotype]]
==== Using custom annotations

.Custom annotation and AspectJ
****
This feature only works out-of-the-box with the proxy-based approach but can be enabled
with a bit of extra effort using AspectJ.

The `spring-aspects` module defines an aspect for the standard annotations only. If you
have defined your own annotations, you also need to define an aspect for those. Check
`AnnotationCacheAspect` for an example.
****

The caching abstraction allows you to use your own annotations to identify what method
triggers cache population or eviction. This is quite handy as a template mechanism as it
eliminates the need to duplicate cache annotation declarations (especially useful if the
key or condition are specified) or if the foreign imports (`org.springframework`) are
not allowed in your code base. Similar to the rest of the
<<beans-stereotype-annotations,stereotype>> annotations, `@Cacheable`, `@CachePut`,
`@CacheEvict` and `@CacheConfig` can be used as <<beans-meta-annotations,meta-annotations>>,
that is annotations that can annotate other annotations. To wit, let us replace a common
`@Cacheable` declaration with our own, custom annotation:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
	@Target({ElementType.METHOD})
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="books", key="#isbn")
	public @interface SlowService {
	}
----

Above, we have defined our own `SlowService` annotation which itself is annotated with
`@Cacheable` - now we can replace the following code:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="books", key="#isbn")
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)
----

with:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@SlowService
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)
----

Even though `@SlowService` is not a Spring annotation, the container automatically picks
up its declaration at runtime and understands its meaning. Note that as mentioned
<<cache-annotation-enable,above>>, the annotation-driven behavior needs to be enabled.


[[cache-jsr-107]]
=== JCache (JSR-107) annotations

Since the Spring Framework 4.1, the caching abstraction fully supports the JCache
standard annotations: these are `@CacheResult`, `@CachePut`, `@CacheRemove` and
`@CacheRemoveAll` as well as the `@CacheDefaults`, `@CacheKey` and `@CacheValue`
companions. These annotations can be used right the way without migrating your
cache store to JSR-107: the internal implementation uses Spring's caching abstraction
and provides default `CacheResolver` and `KeyGenerator` implementations that are
compliant with the specification. In other words, if you are already using Spring's
caching abstraction, you can switch to these standard annotations without changing
your cache storage (or configuration, for that matter).

[[cache-jsr-107-summary]]
==== Features summary

For those who are familiar with Spring's caching annotations, the following table
describes the main differences between the Spring annotations and the JSR-107
counterpart:

.Spring vs. JSR-107 caching annotations
[cols="1,1,3"]
|===
| Spring| JSR-107| Remark

| `@Cacheable`
| `@CacheResult`
| Fairly similar. `@CacheResult` can cache specific exceptions and force the
  execution of the method regardless of the content of the cache.

| `@CachePut`
| `@CachePut`
| While Spring updates the cache with the result of the method invocation, JCache
  requires to pass it as an argument that is annotated with `@CacheValue`. Due
  to this difference, JCache allows to update the cache before or after the
  actual method invocation.

| `@CacheEvict`
| `@CacheRemove`
| Fairly similar. `@CacheRemove` supports a conditional evict in case the
  method invocation results in an exception.

| `@CacheEvict(allEntries=true)`
| `@CacheRemoveAll`
| See `@CacheRemove`.

| `@CacheConfig`
| `@CacheDefaults`
| Allows to configure the same concepts, in a similar fashion.
|===

JCache has the notion of `javax.cache.annotation.CacheResolver` that is identical
to the Spring's `CacheResolver` interface, except that JCache only supports a single
cache. By default, a simple implementation retrieves the cache to use based on
the name declared on the annotation. It should be noted that if no cache name
is specified on the annotation, a default is automatically generated, check the
javadoc of `@CacheResult#cacheName()` for more information.

`CacheResolver` instances are retrieved by a `CacheResolverFactory`. It is
possible to customize the factory per cache operation:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@CacheResult(cacheNames="books", *cacheResolverFactory=MyCacheResolverFactory.class*)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn)
----

[NOTE]
====
For all referenced _classes_, Spring tries to locate a bean with the given type. If
more than one match exists, a new instance is created and can use the regular
bean lifecycle callbacks such as dependency injection.
====

Keys are generated by a `javax.cache.annotation.CacheKeyGenerator` that serves the
same purpose as Spring's `KeyGenerator`. By default, all method arguments are taken
into account unless at least one parameter is annotated with `@CacheKey`. This is
similar to Spring's <<cache-annotations-cacheable-key,custom key generation
declaration>>. For instance these are identical operations, one using Spring's
abstraction and the other with JCache:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@Cacheable(cacheNames="books", **key="#isbn"**)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)

	@CacheResult(cacheName="books")
	public Book findBook(**@CacheKey** ISBN isbn, boolean checkWarehouse, boolean includeUsed)
----

The `CacheKeyResolver` to use can also be specified on the operation, in a similar
fashion as the `CacheResolverFactory`.

JCache can manage exceptions thrown by annotated methods: this can prevent an update of
the cache but it can also cache the exception as an indicator of the failure instead of
calling the method again. Let's assume that `InvalidIsbnNotFoundException` is thrown if
the structure of the ISBN is invalid. This is a permanent failure, no book could ever be
retrieved with such parameter. The following caches the exception so that further calls
with the same, invalid ISBN, throws the cached exception directly instead of invoking
the method again.

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	@CacheResult(cacheName="books", **exceptionCacheName="failures"**
	             **cachedExceptions = InvalidIsbnNotFoundException.class**)
	public Book findBook(ISBN isbn)
----


==== Enabling JSR-107 support

Nothing specific needs to be done to enable the JSR-107 support alongside Spring's
declarative annotation support. Both `@EnableCaching` and the
`cache:annotation-driven` element will enable automatically the JCache support
if both the JSR-107 API and the `spring-context-support` module are present in
the classpath.

[NOTE]
====
Depending of your use case, the choice is basically yours. You can even mix
and match services using the JSR-107 API and others using Spring's own
annotations. Be aware however that if these services are impacting the same
caches, a consistent and identical key generation implementation should be used.
====


[[cache-declarative-xml]]
=== Declarative XML-based caching
If annotations are not an option (no access to the sources or no external code), one can
use XML for declarative caching. So instead of annotating the methods for caching, one
specifies the target method and the caching directives externally (similar to the
declarative transaction management <<transaction-declarative-first-example,advice>>).
The previous example can be translated into:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim"]
----
	<!-- the service we want to make cacheable -->
	<bean id="bookService" class="x.y.service.DefaultBookService"/>

	<!-- cache definitions -->
	<cache:advice id="cacheAdvice" cache-manager="cacheManager">
		<cache:caching cache="books">
			<cache:cacheable method="findBook" key="#isbn"/>
			<cache:cache-evict method="loadBooks" all-entries="true"/>
		</cache:caching>
	</cache:advice>

	<!-- apply the cacheable behavior to all BookService interfaces -->
	<aop:config>
		<aop:advisor advice-ref="cacheAdvice" pointcut="execution(* x.y.BookService.*(..))"/>
	</aop:config>

	<!-- cache manager definition omitted -->
----

In the configuration above, the `bookService` is made cacheable. The caching semantics
to apply are encapsulated in the `cache:advice` definition which instructs method
`findBooks` to be used for putting data into the cache while method `loadBooks` for
evicting data. Both definitions are working against the `books` cache.

The `aop:config` definition applies the cache advice to the appropriate points in the
program by using the AspectJ pointcut expression (more information is available in
<<aop>>). In the example above, all methods from the `BookService` are considered and
the cache advice applied to them.

The declarative XML caching supports all of the annotation-based model so moving between
the two should be fairly easy - further more both can be used inside the same
application. The XML based approach does not touch the target code however it is
inherently more verbose; when dealing with classes with overloaded methods that are
targeted for caching, identifying the proper methods does take an extra effort since the
`method` argument is not a good discriminator - in these cases, the AspectJ pointcut can
be used to cherry pick the target methods and apply the appropriate caching
functionality. However through XML, it is easier to apply a package/group/interface-wide
caching (again due to the AspectJ pointcut) and to create template-like definitions (as
we did in the example above by defining the target cache through the `cache:definitions`
`cache` attribute).




[[cache-store-configuration]]
=== Configuring the cache storage
Out of the box, the cache abstraction provides several storage integration. To use
them, one needs to simply declare an appropriate `CacheManager` - an entity that
controls and manages ``Cache``s and can be used to retrieve these for storage.


[[cache-store-configuration-jdk]]
==== JDK ConcurrentMap-based Cache

The JDK-based `Cache` implementation resides under
`org.springframework.cache.concurrent` package. It allows one to use `ConcurrentHashMap`
as a backing `Cache` store.

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<!-- simple cache manager -->
	<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.support.SimpleCacheManager">
		<property name="caches">
			<set>
				<bean class="org.springframework.cache.concurrent.ConcurrentMapCacheFactoryBean" p:name="default"/>
				<bean class="org.springframework.cache.concurrent.ConcurrentMapCacheFactoryBean" p:name="books"/>
			</set>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

The snippet above uses the `SimpleCacheManager` to create a `CacheManager` for the two
nested `ConcurrentMapCache` instances named __default__ and __books__. Note that the
names are configured directly for each cache.

As the cache is created by the application, it is bound to its lifecycle, making it
suitable for basic use cases, tests or simple applications. The cache scales well and is
very fast but it does not provide any management or persistence capabilities nor
eviction contracts.



[[cache-store-configuration-ehcache]]
==== Ehcache-based Cache

NOTE: Ehcache 3.x is fully JSR-107 compliant and no dedicated support is required for it.

The Ehcache 2.x implementation is located under `org.springframework.cache.ehcache` package.
Again, to use it, one simply needs to declare the appropriate `CacheManager`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="cacheManager"
	      class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheCacheManager" p:cache-manager-ref="ehcache"/>

	<!-- EhCache library setup -->
	<bean id="ehcache"
	      class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManagerFactoryBean" p:config-location="ehcache.xml"/>
----

This setup bootstraps the ehcache library inside Spring IoC (through the `ehcache` bean) which
is then wired into the dedicated `CacheManager` implementation. Note the entire
ehcache-specific configuration is read from `ehcache.xml`.

[[cache-store-configuration-caffeine]]
==== Caffeine Cache

Caffeine is a Java 8 rewrite of Guava's cache and its implementation is located under
`org.springframework.cache.caffeine` package and provides access to several features
of Caffeine.

Configuring a `CacheManager` that creates the cache on demand is straightforward:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="cacheManager"
	      class="org.springframework.cache.caffeine.CaffeineCacheManager"/>
----

It is also possible to provide the caches to use explicitly. In that case, only those
will be made available by the manager:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.caffeine.CaffeineCacheManager">
		<property name="caches">
			<set>
				<value>default</value>
				<value>books</value>
			</set>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

The Caffeine `CacheManager` also supports customs `Caffeine` and `CacheLoader`. See
the https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki[Caffeine documentation] for more
information about those.

[[cache-store-configuration-guava]]
==== Guava Cache

The Guava implementation is located under `org.springframework.cache.guava` package and
provides access to several features of Guava.

Configuring a `CacheManager` that creates the cache on demand is straightforward:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="cacheManager"
	      class="org.springframework.cache.guava.GuavaCacheManager"/>
----

It is also possible to provide the caches to use explicitly. In that case, only those
will be made available by the manager:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.guava.GuavaCacheManager">
		<property name="caches">
			<set>
				<value>default</value>
				<value>books</value>
			</set>
		</property>
	</bean>
----

The Guava `CacheManager` also supports customs `CacheBuilder` and `CacheLoader`. See
the https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/CachesExplained[Guava documentation]
for more information about those.

[[cache-store-configuration-gemfire]]
==== GemFire-based Cache

GemFire is a memory-oriented/disk-backed, elastically scalable, continuously available,
active (with built-in pattern-based subscription notifications), globally replicated
database and provides fully-featured edge caching. For further information on how to use
GemFire as a CacheManager (and more), please refer to the
{doc-spring-gemfire}/html/[Spring Data GemFire reference documentation].

[[cache-store-configuration-jsr107]]
==== JSR-107 Cache

JSR-107 compliant caches can also be used by Spring's caching abstraction. The JCache
implementation is located under `org.springframework.cache.jcache` package.

Again, to use it, one simply needs to declare the appropriate `CacheManager`:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="cacheManager"
	      class="org.springframework.cache.jcache.JCacheCacheManager"
	      p:cache-manager-ref="jCacheManager"/>

	<!-- JSR-107 cache manager setup  -->
	<bean id="jCacheManager" .../>
----


[[cache-store-configuration-noop]]
==== Dealing with caches without a backing store
Sometimes when switching environments or doing testing, one might have cache
declarations without an actual backing cache configured. As this is an invalid
configuration, at runtime an exception will be thrown since the caching infrastructure
is unable to find a suitable store. In situations like this, rather then removing the
cache declarations (which can prove tedious), one can wire in a simple, dummy cache that
performs no caching - that is, forces the cached methods to be executed every time:

[source,xml,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.support.CompositeCacheManager">
		<property name="cacheManagers">
			<list>
				<ref bean="jdkCache"/>
				<ref bean="gemfireCache"/>
			</list>
		</property>
		<property name="fallbackToNoOpCache" value="true"/>
	</bean>
----

The `CompositeCacheManager` above chains multiple ``CacheManager``s and additionally,
through the `fallbackToNoOpCache` flag, adds a __no op__ cache that for all the
definitions not handled by the configured cache managers. That is, every cache
definition not found in either `jdkCache` or `gemfireCache` (configured above) will be
handled by the no op cache, which will not store any information causing the target
method to be executed every time.




[[cache-plug]]
=== Plugging-in different back-end caches
Clearly there are plenty of caching products out there that can be used as a backing
store. To plug them in, one needs to provide a `CacheManager` and `Cache` implementation
since unfortunately there is no available standard that we can use instead. This may
sound harder than it is since in practice, the classes tend to be simple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter_pattern[adapter]s that map the caching abstraction
framework on top of the storage API as the `ehcache` classes can show. Most
`CacheManager` classes can use the classes in `org.springframework.cache.support`
package, such as `AbstractCacheManager` which takes care of the boiler-plate code
leaving only the actual __mapping__ to be completed. We hope that in time, the libraries
that provide integration with Spring can fill in this small configuration gap.




[[cache-specific-config]]
=== How can I set the TTL/TTI/Eviction policy/XXX feature?
Directly through your cache provider. The cache abstraction is... well, an abstraction
not a cache implementation. The solution you are using might support various data
policies and different topologies which other solutions do not (take for example the JDK
`ConcurrentHashMap`) - exposing that in the cache abstraction would be useless simply
because there would no backing support. Such functionality should be controlled directly
through the backing cache, when configuring it or through its native API.

