Spring Boot 2.0 is based on Spring Framework 5.0, which came with built-in support for developing reactive applications. Spring Framework uses Project Reactor as the base implementation of its reactive support, and also comes with a new web framework, Spring WebFlux, which supports the development of reactive, that is, non-blocking, HTTP clients and services.
Spring WebFlux supports two different programming models:
- An annotation-based imperative style, similar to the already existing web framework, Spring Web MVC, but with support for reactive services
- A new function-oriented model based on routers and handlers
In this book, we will use the annotation-based imperative style to demonstrate how easy it is to move REST services from Spring Web MVC to Spring WebFlux and then start to refactor the services so that they become...
