Building asynchronous tasks with returning results

One of the first challenges you will face if you have never worked with asynchronous tasks is: how on Earth do you return results from an asynchronous task if you don't know when the execution will end?

Well, this recipe show you how. AsyncResponse for the win!

Getting ready

Let's first add our Java EE 8 dependency:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
            <version>8.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

How...