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CORE JAVA-INTERVIEW PREPARATION

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how to use concurrent users in spring boot ?

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In Spring Boot, you can handle concurrent users using various techniques, such as session management, authentication,
authorization, and concurrency control. Here's a basic outline of how you can manage concurrent users in a Spring Boot application:

Session Management: Spring Boot provides session management capabilities out of the box. You can configure session
handling through properties in the application.properties or application.yml file. For example, you can set session timeout, session
cookie properties, and so on.

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server:

servlet:

session:

timeout: 30m # session timeout

Authentication and Authorization: Spring Security is the de facto standard for handling authentication and authorization in
Spring Boot applications. By configuring Spring Security, you can control user access to different parts of your application based on
their roles or permissions.

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@Configuration

@EnableWebSecurity

public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

@Override

protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {

http

.authorizeRequests()

.antMatchers("/public/**").permitAll()

.anyRequest().authenticated()
.and()

.formLogin()

.loginPage("/login")

.permitAll()

.and()

.logout()

.permitAll();

@Autowired

public void configureGlobal(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {

auth

.inMemoryAuthentication()

.withUser("user").password("{noop}password").roles("USER");

Concurrency Control: You can manage concurrent access to critical sections of your application using concurrency control
mechanisms such as synchronized blocks, locks, or optimistic locking. This ensures that multiple users cannot update shared data
simultaneously and potentially cause inconsistencies.

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@Service

public class MyService {

private final Object lock = new Object();

public void updateSharedData() {

synchronized (lock) {

// Critical section

// Update shared data

}
}

Throttling and Rate Limiting: You can use libraries like Spring Cloud Gateway or Spring Rate Limiter to control the rate at
which requests are processed. This prevents one user from overwhelming your system with too many requests, thus ensuring fair
access for all users.

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@RestController

public class MyController {

private final RateLimiter rateLimiter = RateLimiter.create(10); // 10 requests per second

@GetMapping("/api/resource")

public ResponseEntity<?> getResource() {

if (rateLimiter.tryAcquire()) {

// Process the request

return ResponseEntity.ok().build();

} else {

return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.TOO_MANY_REQUESTS).build();

These are just some basic strategies for managing concurrent users in a Spring Boot application. Depending on your specific
requirements and use cases, you might need to implement additional measures or customize these approaches further.

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Thread Pooling how it useful for concurrent user management

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Thread pooling is a technique used to manage and reuse threads efficiently in concurrent applications. In the context of
managing concurrent users in a Spring Boot application, thread pooling can be beneficial in several ways:

Resource Management: Thread pooling allows you to limit the number of concurrent threads that can execute tasks in your
application. This helps prevent resource exhaustion, such as excessive memory consumption or CPU usage, especially in scenarios
with a large number of concurrent users.
Performance Optimization: Creating and destroying threads can be an expensive operation. Thread pooling mitigates this
overhead by reusing existing threads from a pool rather than creating new ones for each task. Reusing threads reduces the latency
associated with thread creation and termination, resulting in better performance and responsiveness for your application.

Concurrency Control: By defining the size of the thread pool, you can control the degree of concurrency in your application.
This allows you to manage the workload effectively, ensuring that the system doesn't become overwhelmed with too many
concurrent tasks. You can adjust the thread pool size based on factors such as system resources, application requirements, and
expected user load.

Task Queuing: When the number of incoming requests exceeds the capacity of the thread pool, additional tasks can be
queued up until a thread becomes available to process them. This helps prevent overload situations and provides a mechanism for
gracefully handling bursts of traffic without causing degradation in performance or stability.

In a Spring Boot application, you can leverage thread pooling mechanisms provided by libraries such as Java's
ExecutorService or Spring's TaskExecutor. These allow you to define and configure thread pools with various properties such as core
pool size, maximum pool size, queue capacity, and thread timeout.

Here's a basic example of how you can use a thread pool in a Spring Boot application:

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import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Async;

import org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.ThreadPoolTaskExecutor;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;

import java.util.concurrent.Executor;

@Service

public class MyService {

private final Executor executor;

public MyService() {

ThreadPoolTaskExecutor taskExecutor = new ThreadPoolTaskExecutor();

taskExecutor.setCorePoolSize(10); // Set the core pool size

taskExecutor.setMaxPoolSize(20); // Set the maximum pool size

taskExecutor.setQueueCapacity(50); // Set the queue capacity

taskExecutor.initialize();

this.executor = taskExecutor;

@Async

public CompletableFuture<String> processAsyncTask() {

// Perform asynchronous task

return CompletableFuture.completedFuture("Task completed");

public void executeTask() {

((ThreadPoolTaskExecutor) executor).execute(() -> {

// Perform task

System.out.println("Task executed");

});

In this example, ThreadPoolTaskExecutor is used to create a thread pool with a core pool size of 10, a maximum pool size of
20, and a queue capacity of 50. The @Async annotation is used to execute methods asynchronously, and executeTask() method
demonstrates executing a task using the thread pool directly.