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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
Book Image

Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By: Sherwin John C. Tragura

Overview of this book

The Spring framework has been the go-to framework for Java developers for quite some time. It enhances modularity, provides more readable code, and enables the developer to focus on developing the application while the underlying framework takes care of transaction APIs, remote APIs, JMX APIs, and JMS APIs. The upcoming version of the Spring Framework has a lot to offer, above and beyond the platform upgrade to Java 9, and this book will show you all you need to know to overcome common to advanced problems you might face. Each recipe will showcase some old and new issues and solutions, right from configuring Spring 5.0 container to testing its components. Most importantly, the book will highlight concurrent processes, asynchronous MVC and reactive programming using Reactor Core APIs. Aside from the core components, this book will also include integration of third-party technologies that are mostly needed in building enterprise applications. By the end of the book, the reader will not only be well versed with the essential concepts of Spring, but will also have mastered its latest features in a solution-oriented manner.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 6. Functional Programming

One of the main reasons why Spring 5.0's framework was created is to fully integrate functional programming when implementing the asynchronous web framework. The so-called functional web framework has a reactive core that has its own annotation, interfaces, and classes for handling requests. Thus, to fully understand reactive programming in Spring is to know the core platform of Java functional programming.

The main idea of functional programming is to build a set of definitions to evaluate computer instructions. Each definition is a concise, single, and atomic expression that calls another occurrence of expressions which, collectively, can give a simplified result. Although functional programming is an old programming methodology based on mathematical principles, it is now being integrated in Java for the purposes of creating a transition from an imperative way of programming to a more reduced, clear, agile and robust style of coding. But aside from the...