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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

Testing the need and role of a developer

Testing is one of the very important and time-consuming phases in application development, and it needs to be carried out seriously. As a developer, we have to keep in mind that along with developing the application, checking whether it is giving the desired results or not is our responsibility. You may think if we have testers, why do we need to test the application? Testing an application doesn't mean just checking how the final product works. It is actually a continuous process at each stage of development. And we, as developers, are a very important part of it. Testing can be carried out as unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and user-acceptance state, at different phases in application development.

We, as developers, start with testing the very basic structure of an application--a function. This is also called unit...