Async tasks in java rest webservices - java

I am currently working on order management system for ecommerce portal
The backend are rest webservices in java while the front end is angular js.
The rest service in java does many tasks when an order is placed /updated
store/update order and items in the order in the db
Notify 3rd party logistics regd this order
send email notification to the customer
send sms notification to the customer
etc
We already have an async queue implemented for another feature using blocking queue.
1. use the same queue(current size is 200 and is in memory) and post to it
2. create a new queue inside the rest webservice application
3. integrate with 3rd party queues.
Can someone give insights on #3? or is it wise to go for #1 or #2?

Order management of e-commerce portal is not a simple problem. It will most likely have scalability requirements and using simple Blocking Queue for async processing will not be a good idea.
JVM based Blocking Queue is in-memory queue and requires producers and consumers to be running in same JVM process.
For sending emails whenver a customer places a new order, you need to ensure that email was really sent and application restarts does not result in loss of data present in Blocking Queue.
Hence, most likely you should use an out-of-process Queue systems such as Apache Kafka or Apache ActiveMQ or equivalent.

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(2) Is your micro service performing an MQGET with the matching option of getting by Correlation ID.
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Read this answer: How to match MQ Server reply messages to the correct request
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In short time i have fixed it using the observable.toblocking.single() ,thread.sleep(), and setMaxConcurrenceConsumer() to 1 so only one thread will run at a time. which will avoid the Asynchronous call to external service.The sleep time will set dynamically with some analysis done on the external service.

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https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/async.html
But yes the latency should be controlled as your client would be waiting for server to respond, and would be good if client calls it in AJAX way.
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I have a data-push web service implemented in REST which pushes the data in database.
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I am currently evaluating JMS and I don't get what I could use it for.
Currently, I believe this would be a Usecase: I want to create a SalesInvoice PDF and print it when an SalesOrder leaves the Warehouse, so during the Delivery transaction I could send a transactional print request which just begins when the SalesOrder transaction completes successfully.
Now I found out most JMS products are standalone server.
Why would a need a Standalone Server for Message Processing, vs. e.g. some simple inproc processing with Quartz scheduler?
How does it interact with my application?
Isn't it much too slow?
What are Usecases you already implemented successfully?
JMS is an amazingly useful system, but not for every purpose.
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JMS also adds robustness. For instance, you can configure it so that if the server dies while the client sends messages or the other way around, you can still send messages from the client or poll messages from the server. If you ever tried implementing this directly with sockets - it's a nightmare.
The scenario you describe sounds like a classic J2EE problem, why are you not using a J2EE framework? JMS is often used inside J2EE for communications, but you got all the other benefits.
What ist Java Message Service (JMS) for
JMS is a messaging standard that allows Java EE applications to create, send, receive, and consume messages in a loosely coupled, reliable, and asynchronous way. I'd suggest to read the Java Message Service API Overview for more details.
Why would a need a Standalone Server for Message Processing, vs. e.g. some simple inproc processing with Quartz scheduler?
Sure, in your case, Quartz is an option. But what if the invoice system is a remote system? What if you don't want to wait for the answer? What if the remote system is down when you want to communicate with it? What if the network is not always available? This is where JMS comes in. JMS allows to send a message guaranteed to be delivered and to consume it in a transactional way (sending or consuming a message can be part of a global transaction).
How does it interact with my application?
JMS supports two communication modes: point-to-point and publish/subscribe (if this answers the question).
Isn't it much too slow?
The MOMs I've been working with were blazing fast.
What are Usecases you already implemented successfully?
Used in system such as a reservation application, a banking back-office (processing market data), or more simply to send emails.
See also
EJB Message-Driven Beans
Why would a need a Standalone Server
for Message Processing, vs. e.g. some
simple inproc processing with Quartz
scheduler?
The strength of JMS lies in the fact that you can have multiple producers and multiple consumers for the same queue, and the JMS broker manages the load.
If you have multiple producers but a single consumer, you can use other approaches as well, such as a quartz scheduler and a database table. But as soon as you have multiple consumer, the locking scheme become very hard to design; better go for already approved messaging solution. See these other answers from me for a few more details: Why choosing JMS for asynchronous solution ? and Producer/consumer system using database
The other points are just too vague to be answered.
I've used it on a number of projects. It can help with scalability, decoupling of services, high availability. Here's a description of how I used it on a project several years ago:
http://coders-log.blogspot.com/2008/12/favorite-projects-series-installment-2.html
The description explains what JMS brought to the table for this particular project, but other projects will use messaging systems for a variety of reasons.
Messaging is usually used to interconnect different systems and send requests/commands asynchronously. A common example is a bank client application requesting an approval for a transaction. The server is located in another bank's system. Both systems are connected in an Enterprise Service Bus. The request goes into the messaging bus, which instantly acknowledges the reception of the message. The client can go on with processing. Whenever the server system becomes available, the bus forwards the message to it. Of course there needs to be a second path, for the server to inform the client that the transaction executed successfully or failed. This again can be implemented with JMS.
Please note that the two systems need not to implement JMS. One can use JMS and the other one MSMQ. The bus will take care of the interconnection.
JMS is a message-oriented middleware.
Why would a need a Standalone Server for Message Processing, vs. e.g. some simple inproc processing with Quartz scheduler?
It depends on what other components you may have. I guess. But I don't know anything about Quartz
How does it interact with my application?
You send messages to the broker.
Isn't it much too slow?
Compare to what ?
What are Usecases you already implemented successfully?
I've used JMS to implement a SIP application server, to communicate between the various components.
From the Javadoc:
The Java Message Service (JMS) API provides a common way for Java programs to create, send, receive and read an enterprise messaging system's messages.
In other words, and contrary to every other answer here, JMS is nothing more than an API, which wraps access to third-party Message Brokers, via 'JMS Providers' implemented by the vendor. Those Message Brokers, such as IBM MQ and dozens of others, have the features of reliability, asynchronicity, etc. that have been mentioned in other answers. JMS itself provides exactly none of them. It is to Message Brokers what JDBC is to SQL databases, or JNDI is to LDAP servers (among other things).
I have found a very good explanation of JMS with an example.
That is a simple chat application with JMS queues are used to communicate messages between users and messages stay in the queue if the receiver is offline.
In this example implementation they have used
XSD to generate domain classes.
Eclipse EE as IDE.
JBoss as web/application server.
HTML/JavaScript/JQuery for UI.
Servlet as controller.
MySQL as DB.
The JBoss configuration step for queue is explained nicely
Its available at http://coder2design.com/messaging-service/
Even the downloadable code is also available there.

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