Configuring the TaskExecutor

It is appropriate to start this chapter with a recipe that will deal with the processing of huge request transactions, slicing them into pieces to be assigned for thread pool synchronously executions and managing their callbacks to arrive at a final response. In short, the recipe below will enumerate on how to enable asynchronous Spring 5 MVC platform.

Getting started

Using the Eclipse STS from Chapter 1, Getting started with Spring, create a Maven Project ch08 with a core package org.packt.web.reactive to start with.

How to do it...

Let us start this chapter with a new set up and configuration for the new ch08 project and with the following steps:

1. Add in its pom.xml and all the needed Maven core libraries and dependencies such as the Spring 5, Servlet 3.1, JSP 2.3.1, JSTL 1.2, MySQL Connector 5.1.x, HikariCP 2.5.x, and Log4J 1.2.
2. Just like in the previous chapters, create similar empty classes, namely SpringWebinitializer, SpringWebinitializer, SpringContextConfig...