Thread: How to execute a long running task for multiple web users

Considering it has been years since I worked in pure Java.

My requirement is to develop a data report management web application that pulls data from 3rd party application using their APIs.
In this on a new user registration, first the user's whole history of data from the 3rd party application should be loaded. This takes approx 15 to 20 minutes.

What I am looking for is... This long process should run asynchronously without holding back the user in the same page.

What happened is.. I used Thread, but whenever a user registers the data pulling process of the previously initiated user is interrupted.

Now am checking if I can use Spring Batch for this.

If you could point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance

If your management system is quite simple, I think using JavaScript for agile development would be more suitable for you. For the front end, you can quickly build the interface using Element UI or Material UI, and you can use react or vue for the development framework.

Developing with Node.js and MySQL is very straightforward and is more suitable for small private systems. Furthermore, if you don't have high requirements for performance and memory, you can fully host it in the cloud and take advantage of Cloudflare's edge computing capabilities.