Creating asynchronous events in spring

Question

I was looking at using spring 3.1 for publishing events and using listeners to consume these events. however I have read that these events are synchronous, is it possible to make them asynchronous, maybe use the @async annotation?

Im really looking at creating an event driven architecture in Java/Spring - publishing and consuming events, would you think Spring/Java would suffice?

Answer 1

In this case it will be perfect to use Spring integration. which gives a different kinds of messaging solutions.

Here is a little explanation about Event-Driven Consumer:

And here is an example in Spring integration that is relevant to your needs:

1. Messaging Endpoints
2. some more examples

Good luck!