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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

You're reading from   Spring 5.0 Cookbook Recipes to build, test, and run Spring applications efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128316
Length 670 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sherwin John C. Tragura Sherwin John C. Tragura
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Spring FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning Dependency Injection (DI) 3. Implementing MVC Design Patterns 4. Securing Spring MVC Applications 5. Cross-Cutting the MVC 6. Functional Programming 7. Reactive Programming 8. Reactive Web Applications 9. Spring Boot 2.0 10. The Microservices 11. Batch and Message-Driven Processes 12. Other Spring 5 Features 13. Testing Spring 5 Components

Applying the observer design pattern using Reactive Streams


Reactive programming started as a Reactive Streams model initially implemented in the .NET Framework but popularized by Pivotal and Netflix. This programming paradigm is supported by a specification used by many developers to extend and implement libraries that can solve Reactive-related problems. JavaScript, Python, and Java are some of the languages that have already shown their support by including this specification in their platforms. Based on the Reactive Stream JVM specification, Java 1.8 and above can now support Reactive programming. Java 1.9, especially, has a dedicated Flow API (java.util.concurrent.Flow) which consists of all the Reactive Streams API written within the context of Java language specification.

This chapter will introduce Reactive programming concepts and will provide recipes on how this paradigm started using the popular observer design pattern.

Getting started

The Reactive model was conceived by the Reactive...

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