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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

Mockito testing

Mockito is an open source testing framework developed for testing Java-based applications and was released under the MIT License. Usually, in unit testing, we consider the unit or function to be dependent on the environment. And what if, maybe for some reason, the environment won't be available? Consider that we are developing a web application, and want to test the doGet() or doPost() methods. We cannot test them using JUnit, as the request and response objects are uninitialized. And these objects cannot be initialized by us. We need to deploy the application on the server, and only then will the testing be possible. What if we were able to create dummy objects for request and response?

The Mockito framework enables the developers to create mock objects for test-driven development where the objects under testing are isolated from the framework. The objects...