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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

Server-Sent Events (SSE)

The servers enable pushing of the data to the Web pages over HTTP, or they may use server-push protocols. The subclass of the ResponseBodyEmitter class, SseEmitter, supports working with SSE. It's actually another variation of the HTTP Streaming technique in which the pushed events from the server are formatted according to the W3C Server-Sent Events specification.

These events can be pushed from the server to the clients, which now can very easily be done in Spring MVC, and requires returning a value of type SseEmitter. This sending of events plays a vital role in online gaming applications, applications for collaboration, and financial applications. Spring's WebSocket support includes SockJS style WebSocket, a higher-level messaging pattern for interacting with clients.

Let's update EmployeeController to add one more method that will now...