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Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java

You're reading from   Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java A comprehensive guide to building smart and reusable code in Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463593
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kamalmeet Singh Kamalmeet Singh
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Lucian-Paul Torje Lucian-Paul Torje
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Sumith Kumar Puri Sumith Kumar Puri
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Adrian Ianculescu Adrian Ianculescu
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Preface 1. From Object-Oriented to Functional Programming 2. Creational Patterns FREE CHAPTER 3. Behavioral Patterns 4. Structural Patterns 5. Functional Patterns 6. Let's Get Reactive 7. Reactive Design Patterns 8. Trends in Application Architecture 9. Best Practices in Java 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to RxJava


RxJava is an implementation of reactive extension (a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences) ported from the Microsoft .NET world. In 2012, Netflix realized that they needed a paradigm shift since their architecture could not cope with their huge customer base, so they decided to go reactive by bringing the power of the reactive extension to the JVM world; this is how RxJava was born. There are other JVM implementations besides RxJava, such as RxAndroid, RxJavaFX, RxKotlin, and RxScale. This approach gave them the desired boost, and by making it publicly available, it also offered us the opportunity to use it.

RxJava JAR is licensed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0, and available in the central maven repository.

There are a couple of external libraries that make use of RxJava:

  • hystrix: A latency and fault-tolerant library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems
  • rxjava-http-tail: An HTTP log...
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