Where to use Node.js

It’s a topic which every developer faces now a day. Every architect or developer having experience in java always reluctant to go for node.js and prefer java. Before inclining towards any language we need to understand the basic fundamental of that language. Understanding of basics will help us to find suitable language for our server which can fulfill our requirements best. The basic nature of java and node.js is different in way they handle the requests.

                                      Java is multi-threaded language where requests can be entertained by multiple threads so it uses the processor in better way. The basic programming nature of java in Synchronous. If it is executing a code, then it waits for its finish before going to next line of code. In simple words let’s take an example that we have two block of codes where in first block we have a HTTPS call and in second block we have code which logs a message in log file. The HTTPS call takes 5 seconds on an average so java code will wait on first code block for 5 seconds to receive the response and complete that call before proceed to second block which make the whole process a bit slow.

                        We can consider node.js as single thread language where whole application uses a single thread to fulfill all the requests on queue base architecture. All required actions are stored in queue and executed by single thread. The basic programming nature of node.js is asynchronous. If it is executing a code, then it does not wait for its finish before going to next line of code. In same example which we took for java that we have two block of codes where in first block we have a HTTPS call and in second block we have code which logs a message in log file. The HTTPS call takes 5 seconds on an average so node.js code will not wait on first code block for 5 seconds to receive the response and complete that call rather it execute it and proceed to second block the action which we require on response of first call is also queued.

                                       Node.js inherit this Asynchronous feature from JavaScript which makes it suitable for developing high IO operation, data intensive, non-blocking applications like Web-servers and node.js is not suited for application where high calculation, complex business logic or processor intensive operation are required as it has single thread which can get busy for executing that calculation.

Singleton Bean working in Spring

There are five main scopes for creating a bean in spring.

1. singleton
2. prototype
3. request
4. session
5. global-session

 Singleton is default scope type if we don't mention any scope then its singleton by default. A general perception about spring singleton bean is that it behaves same as java singleton class but there are few fundamental differences. Spring IoC container creates only one object for singleton bean and store it in cache memory of all singleton beans. All requests for bean with same name or id will get the same object, It does not mean that class defined as bean is singleton also. lets take an example where we create two beans for same class with different bean name and id then spring will create two different objects in shared memory and will return object based upon name or id given in request.

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {
    @Bean(name={"sineltonTest"})
    @Scope(value = ConfigurableBeanFactory.SCOPE_SINGLETON)
    public singeltonTest getSingeltonTest() {
        return new singeltonTest();
    }
   
    @Bean (name={"sineltonTest1"})
    @Scope(value = ConfigurableBeanFactory.SCOPE_SINGLETON)
    public singeltonTest getSingeltonTest1() {
        return new singeltonTest();
    }
}

In above example spring will create two different objects for two beans ("sineltonTest", "sineltonTest1") in shared cache and if we use @Autowired with @Qualifire("singeltonTest1") then it will get object from cache created for bean with name "sineltonTest1" so bean is sigleton not the class. There is one more catch w.r.t singleton bean in spring that what happen when we create object of that class with new operator instead of @autowired? This question is asked basically to confuse the person in interview. The clear answer is that spring will not return object from cache now it depends upon exact implementation of the bean class if it is created as java singleton class then one instance is created and every time same instance will be returned otherwise every time new instance is created and returned.

Monitor JVM (memory utilization etc.) with JConsole on remote server

It's very common requirement to monitor the memory utilization by our application. This can be done with JConsole. We can monitor JVM on local machine or on remote machine with JConsole.
Firstly we have to run the JConsole, it can be done as:

1. Go to bin folder of your JDK and run the jconole.exe file.
2. Open command line and change directory to bin folder of JDK folder and write jconsole.exe and press enter.

Now you can monitor any local process as shown in above image or you can monitor any process on remote machine. Monitoring process on remote machine involves some additional steps, we consider here to monitor tomcat on remote server as:

1. Go to tomcat folder and locate setenv.bat file(if it does not exist then create an empty file in conf folder). Then add the below lines in setenv.bat file.

1. set CATALINA_OPTS=-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
     -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=PORT number
     -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
     -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false 

   If you want to further authenticate the monitoring then follow the link

   https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/monitoring.html

    
2.  Restart tomcat server.
3. Open JConsole on you system. Select "Remote Process" and enter IP address of remote server with port you have given in step 1.
    
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