Reactive Programming - MacKittipat/note-developer GitHub Wiki

What is it ?

• Asynchronous and non-blocking IO
• Use less resource to do more works.
• Programming with event stream, Sequence of event that happen over time.
• Reactive eXtension (http://reactivex.io, a.ka. RX) is an implementation of the reactive programming principles.

How to implement in Java

• Reactive Streams (Specification), https://www.reactive-streams.org/
  • ReactiveX, http://reactivex.io/
    • RxJava, https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava
  • Project Reactor, https://projectreactor.io/
  • Akka Streams
  • Java9 Flow API

References

• https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2017/06/30/5-things-to-know-about-reactive-programming/
• https://spring.io/blog/2016/06/07/notes-on-reactive-programming-part-i-the-reactive-landscape