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Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

By : Mehta, Subhash Shah, Shah, Prashant Goswami, Dinesh Radadiya
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Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

By: Mehta, Subhash Shah, Shah, Prashant Goswami, Dinesh Radadiya

Overview of this book

While writing an application, performance is paramount. Performance tuning for real-world applications often involves activities geared toward detecting bottlenecks. The recent release of Spring 5.0 brings major advancements in the rich API provided by the Spring framework, which means developers need to master its tools and techniques to achieve high performance applications. Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5 begins with the Spring framework's core features, exploring the integration of different Spring projects. It proceeds to evaluate various Spring specifications to identify those adversely affecting performance. You will learn about bean wiring configurations, aspect-oriented programming, database interaction, and Hibernate to focus on the metrics that help identify performance bottlenecks. You will also look at application monitoring, performance optimization, JVM internals, and garbage collection optimization. Lastly, the book will show you how to leverage the microservice architecture to build a high performance and resilient application. By the end of the book, you will have gained an insight into various techniques and solutions to build and troubleshoot high performance Spring-based applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

DI pitfalls

As we know, there are three DI patterns in the Spring application: constructor-setter-and field-based. Each type has different advantages and disadvantages. Only field-based DI is an incorrect approach and not even recommended by Spring.

Following is an example of a field-based injection:

@Autowired
private ABean aBean;

As per Spring bean best practices, we should not use field-based dependency in our Spring application. The main reason is that it is impossible to test without Spring context. As we cannot supply the dependency from outside, it will not be possible to instantiate the object independently. As per my opinion, this is the only problem with field-based injections.

As we learned in an earlier section, constructor-based dependency is more suitable for mandatory fields, and we can ensure the immutable nature of the object is obtained; however, the main drawback...