Spring Boot @Async method in controller is executing synchronously

Question

My [basic] Spring Boot application accepts a request from the browser, sent via jQuery.get() and is supposed to immediately receive a response - such as \"y

Answer 1

You are calling the @Async method from another method in the same class. Unless you enable AspectJ proxy mode for the @EnableAsync (and provide a weaver of course) that won't work (google "proxy self-invocation"). The easiest fix is to put the @Async method in another @Bean.