What advantage is there to using Spring @Async vs. CompleteableFuture directly?

Question

What's the advantage of using Spring Async vs. Just returning the CompletableFuture on your own?

Answer 1

Your application is managed by the container. Since it's discouraged to spawn Threads on you own, you can let the container inject a managed Executor.

@Service
class MyService {
  @Autowired
  private Executor executor;

  public CompletableFuture<?> compute() {
    return CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> /* compute value */, executor);
  }
}