High Spring Boot Question 159 of 226

Why can @Async, @Transactional, and @Cacheable all silently fail on self-invocation?

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Call fetchPromise pending

NetworkWait off stack

Then / awaitUse the JSON

They are proxy-based AOP.

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Define it
They are proxy-based AOP.
2
Internal this.foo() never hits
the proxy, so you get no new thread, no transaction, and no cache.
3
Put the annotated methods
on another bean or inject self through the context.
4
Interviewers use this to
see if you understand Spring beyond annotations.
5
Common mistake
What juniors usually get wrong.
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When you pick this over the alternative.

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“Put the annotated methods on another bean or inject self through the context.”

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Puttheannotatedmethodsonanother

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They are proxy-based AOP. Internal this.foo() never hits the proxy, so you get no new thread, no transaction, and no cache.