Spring Async issue when upgrading from 4.2.0.RC3 to 4.2.0.RELEASE

Question

I've a web application using the spring(4.2.x) artifacts spring-webmvc, spring-messaging, spring-websocket

I've the below @Enable* annotations in my spring config java class

@EnableWebMvc
@EnableWebSocketMessageBroker
@EnableAsync
@EnableMBeanExport

WebSocket is used for broadcasting messages to browser clients. And there are few async methods annotated with @Async

The application was working fine with spring version 4.2.0.RC3. But when I changed it to the GA release 4.2.0.RELEASE, I get the below exception on startup. If I remove @EnableAsync it works fine, but I need the async functionality.

org.springframework.beans.factory.NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.core.task.TaskExecutor] is defined: expected single matching bean but found 4: clientOutboundChannelExecutor,messageBrokerTaskScheduler,clientInboundChannelExecutor,brokerChannelExecutor
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBean(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:366)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBean(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:332)
    org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.setBeanFactory(AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:128)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeAwareMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1597)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1565)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:305)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:301)
    org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:201)
    org.springframework.context.support.PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.registerBeanPostProcessors(PostProcessorRegistrationDelegate.java:228)
    org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerBeanPostProcessors(AbstractApplicationContext.java:682)
    org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:522)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:667)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:539)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:493)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:136)

Answer 1

One of your @Configuration must implement AsyncConfigurer to specify the particular TaskExecutor for @Async methods.

Otherwise it is in confuse which one to choose from the applicationContext.

Even if it worked with RC3 it doesn't matter that it is correct, hence the bug has been fixed for GA.

UPDATE

The source code in the AsyncAnnotationBeanPostProcessor looks like:

Executor executorToUse = this.executor;
if (executorToUse == null) {
    try {
        // Search for TaskExecutor bean... not plain Executor since that would
        // match with ScheduledExecutorService as well, which is unusable for
        // our purposes here. TaskExecutor is more clearly designed for it.
        executorToUse = beanFactory.getBean(TaskExecutor.class);
    }
    catch (NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException ex) {
        try {
            executorToUse = beanFactory.getBean(DEFAULT_TASK_EXECUTOR_BEAN_NAME, TaskExecutor.class);
        }
        catch (NoSuchBeanDefinitionException ex2) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("More than one TaskExecutor bean exists within the context, " +
                    "and none is named 'taskExecutor'. Mark one of them as primary or name it " +
                    "'taskExecutor' (possibly as an alias); or specify the AsyncConfigurer interface " +
                    "and implement getAsyncExecutor() accordingly.", ex);
        }
    }
    catch (NoSuchBeanDefinitionException ex) {
        logger.debug("Could not find default TaskExecutor bean", ex);
        // Giving up -> falling back to default executor within the advisor...
    }
}

So, I guess before in between moving from RC3 to GA you have had a taskExecutor bean on the matter.

As we see by you StackTrace there is such a bean already...