Spring reactor executing consumers asynchronously - spring

Question

Hi I am trying out Spring reactor so far everything works but my consumers are invoked one after the other ..synchronously
My use case :
The events are published from a restful controller and two simple consumer which prints to console are invoked (In reality one consumer writes to DB and the other publishes the data to a web socket)
I am using spring boot 1.2.7
This is my controller
#Controller
public class MessageController {
#Autowired
#Qualifier("myreactor")
private Reactor r;
#RequestMapping("/hello/{username}")
public #ResponseBody String welcome(#PathVariable String username) {
r.notify("MessageCreated", Event.wrap(username));
return username;
}
}
My event handlers
Handler 1
#Consumer
public class MessageConsumer {
#Autowired
#Qualifier("myreactor")
private Reactor reactor;
#Selector("MessageCreated")
public void handleRequest(Event<String> evt) {
System.out.println("Called Handler 1 " +evt.getData());
}
}
Handler 2
#Consumer
public class MessageConsumer2 {
#Autowired
#Qualifier("myreactor")
private Reactor reactor;
#Selector("MessageCreated")
public void handleRequest(Event<String> evt) {
System.out.println("Called Handler 2 "+ evt.getData());
}
}
My reactor configuration
#Configuration
#EnableReactor
public class ReactorConfiguration {
#Bean
Environment env() {
return new Environment();
}
#Bean
#Qualifier("myreactor")
Reactor myreactor(Environment env) {
return Reactors.reactor()
.env(env)
.dispatcher(Environment.THREAD_POOL)
.get();
}
}
Whatever I do the result is always
Called Handler 1 Hello
Called Handler 2 Hello
Consumer are invoked in the same order
...please do let m know where did I mess up..The above is a mock implementation as I cant paste the original code here.