At the time of writing, the reactive-related specifications that are part of Eclipse MicroProfile are Reactive Streams Operators, Reactive Messaging, and Context Propagation. Reactive work within the MicroProfile community continues to evolve, and new specifications may surface in the future as well as newer releases of existing reactive-related ones.
Reactive programming work in Eclipse MicroProfile
An overview of Reactive Messaging
The Reactive Manifesto defines the characteristics of reactive systems to including an asynchronous messaging core that is used to build elastic, resilient systems. This is typically illustrated via a diagram such as the following:
The idea is that interaction via asynchronous messages promotes...