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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
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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

Building a reactive Spring MVC application


Spring Boot 2.0 supports building reactive Spring MVC applications and also has a starter POM to provide components with Reactor Core 3.x libraries. Likewise, it has the capability to easily integrate with RxJava 2.x APIs to provide us with another option for building reactive transactions. This recipe will be about creating a web application with a 100% reactive web framework of Spring 5.

Getting started

Reopen ch09 and prepare to build a reactive application using Spring Boot 2.0 with all non-blocking and functional components derived from the previous chapter.

How to do it...

Chapter 8, Reactive Web Application, introduced us to the reactive APIs of FreeMarker and Thymeleaf from Spring Reactive module of Spring 5. Let us now explore the reactive components of Spring Boot by doing the following steps:

  1. There is only one starter POM dependency that is responsible for creating a 100% reactive application that can only be inherited from the Spring Boot...