No transaction behaviour needed in Spring Data - spring-transactions

I am trying to figure it out how to configure a method not to run within a transaction using Spring. I have read that the Spring Data repositories by default activate the transactional behaviour in its methods. I dont want this transaction because I have many "save" calls to a repository and each of them is independent from the other. I think creating a transaction for each call to a repository method can slow down the code and the performance of the app. So :
Is this possible or every service or dao method has to run within a transaction?
If it has, why?
If this is possible, how to configure a method not to run within a transaction? Just removing the Spring transactional annotation?
Thanks

Spring service beans by default are not transactional. You can add the #Transactional at a class or a method level to force it to be transactional. Here are a few links explaining in detail on how transactional in Spring works.
What is the difference between defining #Transactional on class vs method .
Spring - #Transactional - What happens in background? .
https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.2.x/spring-framework-reference/html/transaction.html#tx-decl-explained .
It is also discussed in the below thread .
Is Spring #Service transactional?

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how to unit test spring integration dsl code

i was unable to find an simple example to unit test the spring integration dsl, which involves picking up a message from queue and making a rest call.
I looked at the examples https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-integration-java-dsl but was not clear on qualifiers etc for the below code for which i want to write unit test on.
IntegrationFlows.from(Jms.inboundGateway(connectionFactory)
.id("inputChannel")
.destination(sourceQueue)
.jmsMessageConverter(new MarshallingMessageConverter(jaxbMarshaller())))
.something to validate and route
.handle(Http.outboundGateway("http://localhost:9999/create)
.httpMethod(HttpMethod.POST)
.expectedResponseType(String.class))
.get();
Something else is needed in your question to explain more the requirements.
Anyway I'll try to answer in my best feeling on the matter.
Spring Integration Java DSL is nothing more then codding tool to wire beans and build integration components into flows. In the end, at runtime, we just have a set of beans with which we can interact as with any other beans in the application context.
So, if the story is about consuming some destination from JMS and verify what we get from there, there is just enough to run ActiveMQ in the embedded mode - it is as simple as bean for:
new ActiveMQConnectionFactory("vm://localhost?broker.persistent=false")
Then you use JmsTemplate to send some test data to the desired destination (will be created on demand) and consume an Integration message from the channel defined in the mentioned in your question IntegrationFlow.
Typically for consuming test data we use a QueueChannel and its receive(long timeout). This way we block a unit test until data arrives or timeout is elapsed.
Another way to verify a flow work is with the Spring Integration Testing Framework. From there you can use a MockIntegration to replace the real MessageHandler in the application context and verify an interaction with the mock afterward.
Hope that helps a bit.

How to call security setup when message received using Spring Integration

I currently am using Spring Integration to get messages off of a queue and send them to a service using a service activator. My issue is that the service I am calling requires a security context to be in place for the current thread. This can be setup by calling a no-argument method, handleAuthentication(), of another bean. I am wondering what the best way is to call this whenever a new message is received, prior to calling the service activator service? I was originally thinking I would chain together two service activators, with the first one calling handleAuthentication(), but this seems incorrect as handleAuthentication() does not require any information from the actual message.
Yes, your assumption about the security handling is correct. It is really just a side-effect aspect which should not be tied with the business logic.
Therefore we should use something which allows us to follow with the same behavior in the program. It is called as an Aspect in the programming as well.
For this purpose Spring Integration suggests a hook like MessageChannelInterceptor, where you can implement your handleAuthentication() exactly in the preReceive() callback, according to your explanation.
Another trick can be achieved with the <request-handler-advice-chain> and MethodInterceptor implementation which should populate the SecurityContext into the current thread just before target service invocation.

How To Handle Spring Transaction In Two Different Application Server

As of now i have good knowledge on Spring Transaction and successfully implemented Spring transaction with one application server and transaction is working good.But wondering about if we have two different application server at that time how to use spring transaction.As of my understanding spring transaction support only one application server with one or two datasource. Guys please give advice how to handle in this situation.
Thanks in advance
It's almost same, in case of two application server you need two data source object, there by two session factory and two transaction manager. while performing transaction you can always choose the transaction which you want to use.
For ex: Two data sources :-
1.#Autowired #Qualifier("firstAppServerDBConnection")
DataSource oracleDataSource
2.
#Autowired
#Qualifier("secondAppServerDBConnection")
DataSource mySqlDataSource
Two Session Factory
1.
#Autowired
#Qualifier("firstAppServeroracleSessionFactory")
SessionFactory oracleSessionFactory
2.
#Autowired
#Qualifier("secondAppServermySqlSessionFactory")
SessionFactory mySqlSessionFactory
TWo transaction manager :
Same for transaction manager
Imp Method which help you :
LocalSessionFactoryBean.setDataSource(passDataSource) -- For Dif SessionFactory
HibernateTrasnactionManager.setSessionFactory(passSessionFactory) - For Diff Trasnaction
Hope it makes some sense

Java EE (Spring) Multithreading to divide work

I have a simple scenario where in response to a user action:
JSP ===> Controller ===> Service ===> DAO
DAO essentially running a number of disparate queries. Is there a way for the service to call multiple DAOs or DAO methods concurrently, have each perform its one complex query and the have the service aggregate the result from each DAO?
Can use JMS, but how to return the results back to the originating service?
Same goes for spring-batch.
It appears these mechanisms are good to perform work which does not need to be 'returned' to a higher layer.
Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.
check out the #Async annotation combined with a returntype of Future.
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/reference/scheduling.html
you will still need to wait and collect all the result before returning it to the higher layer.
if this is not good enough, you might wanna look at websockets push or longpolling in the web-tier, but that makes the application more complex

EJB pooling vs Spring: how to manage work load in spring?

When an EJB application receives several requests (work load) it can manage this work load just POOLING the EJBs, so when each EJB object is being used by a thread, the next threads will have to wait queued until some EJB ends up the work (avoiding overloading and efficiency degradation of the system).
Spring is using stateless singletons (not pooling at all) that are used by an "out of control" number of threads.
Is there a way to do something to control the way the work load is going to be delivered? (equivalent to the EJB instance pooling).
Thank you!
In the case of the web app, the servlet container has a pool of threads that determine how many incoming HTTP requests it can handle simultaneously. In the case of the message driven POJO the JMS configuration defines a similar thread pool handing incoming JMS messages. Each of these threads would then access the Spring beans.
Googling around for RMI threading it looks like there is no way to configure thread pooling for RMI. Each RMI client is allocated a thread. In this case you could use Spring's Task Executor framework to do the pooling. Using <task:executor id="executor" pool-size="10"/> in your context config will set up a executor with 10 threads. Then annotate the methods of your Spring bean that will be handling the work with #Async.
Using the Spring task executor you could leave the Servlet and JMS pool configuration alone and configure the pool for your specific work in one place.
To achieve a behaviour similar to the EJB pooling, you could define your own custom scope. Have a look at SimpleThreadScope and the example referenced from this class' javadoc.
The difference between Spring and EJB is, that Spring allows multiple threads on an single instance of an bean, while in EJB you have only one tread per bean (at one point in time).
So you do not need any pooling in Spring for this topic. But on the other hand you need take care that you implement your beans in a threadsave way.
From the comments:
Yes I need it if I want to limit the number of threads that can use my beans simultaneously
One (maybe not the best) way to handle this is to implement the application in normal spring style (no limits). And than have a "front-controller" that accept the client request. But instead of invoking the service directly, it invokes the service asyncron (#Async). May you use some kind of async proxy instead of making the service itselfe asyncron.
class Controller{...
Object doStuff() {return asyncProxy.doStuffAsync().get();}
}
class AsyncProxy{...
#Async Future<Object> duStuffAscny{return service.doStuff();
}
class Service{...
Object doStuff{return new Object();}
}
Then you only need to enable springs Async Support, and there you can configure the Pool used for the Threads.
In this case I would use some kind of front controller, that starts an new Async

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