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Reactive Programming With Java 9

By : Tejaswini Mandar Jog
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Reactive Programming With Java 9

By: Tejaswini Mandar Jog

Overview of this book

<p>Reactive programming is an asynchronous programming model that helps you tackle the essential complexity that comes with writing such applications.</p> <p>Using Reactive programming to start building applications is not immediately intuitive to a developer who has been writing programs in the imperative paradigm. To tackle the essential complexity, Reactive programming uses declarative and functional paradigms to build programs. This book sets out to make the paradigm shift easy.</p> <p>This book begins by explaining what Reactive programming is, the Reactive manifesto, and the Reactive Streams specifi cation. It uses Java 9 to introduce the declarative and functional paradigm, which is necessary to write programs in the Reactive style. It explains Java 9’s Flow API, an adoption of the Reactive Streams specifi cation. From this point on, it focuses on RxJava 2.0, covering topics such as creating, transforming,fi ltering, combining, and testing Observables. It discusses how to use Java’s popular framework, Spring, to build event-driven, Reactive applications. You will also learn how to implement resiliency patterns using Hystrix. By the end, you will be fully equipped with the tools and techniques needed to implement robust, event-driven, Reactive applications.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction to Reactive Programming

Declarative programming

Declarative programming is one of the very much in trend paradigms to build the structure of a program, where the logic of computation is expressed without going into the details of the control flow. It is totally the opposite of the imperative and procedural styles of programming which emphasize implementing the algorithms. Functional programming supports the declarative style of programming and simplifies writing the programs which support parallel programming.

The declarative paradigm doesn't state how to solve a problem. However, it just states what the problem is. In declarative programming, a very important thing is to set some rules to match. Depending on the rules, the program continues its execution. When the rule matches, the operation executes, which is opposite to procedural programming, where an order of execution is followed. It doesn...