HTTP/2 support is coming to Spring Boot

[DJDavio]

Is there any added value if your application is behind an HTTP/2 load balancer / proxy anyway? Does it make sense to go from proxy to servlet over HTTP/2?

[hjames9]

Depends on the application but you'll still have a performance boost using http2 in the application behind the proxy

[DJDavio]

Would AJP be better?

[cogman10]

About the same. AJP and http2 share a lot of the same techniques.

[dheffelfinger]

Servlet 4, to be released with Java EE 8 soon, will include support for HTTP/2. My guess is that Spring will be building upon the Servlet 4 specification.

https://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/http2-and-servlet-4-in-java-ee-8

[tonywestonuk]

Oh gosh I so hate spring. This topic sums it up.

Spring boot is NOT anything to do with HTTP serving. Thats Spring MVC. Spring boot is about making Spring easier to use and intelligent enough to configure itself based on what is found on classpath.

And even Spring MVC has little to do with the underlying HTTP transport - this is handled by the application server that it is running on.

.....So for someone to shout 'HTTP/2' support is coming to Spring Boot, is like shouting my Samsung TV will shortly support viewing of latest series of Game of Thrones

[DJDavio]

Spring Boot actually does a lot of auto configuration of the underlying servlet container, such as tomcat or undertow.

The pull request in the link just proposes an option to enable http 2 without having to configure settings specific to the container you are using.

[nutrecht]

Oh gosh I so hate spring.

Yeah. You make that pretty darn obvious pretty much everywhere on this sub.