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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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1
Introduction to Reactive Programming

Summary

We started the chapter with a jigsaw puzzle with lots of information scattered here and there, some collected from earlier chapters. We were able to understand the various concepts. However, we were wondering how to put them together. How should we start writing the code?

In this chapter, we discovered the Flow API equipped with interfaces and classes to empower the user to develop reactive applications based upon the Publisher-Subscription model. We discussed in detail all the major components of the system along with the role each of them plays. We discussed them along with sample code to gain the implementation confidence. We developed each component step by step and discovered the beauty in the program. Our motive before starting the chapter was to understand how to develop an application that will give us better performance without blocking execution and also capable...