Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Project Reactor version 2.x

Not long after the first official release of Reactor 1.x, Stephane Maldini was invited to the Reactive Streams Special Interest Group as an expert in high-performance message processing systems and a Project Reactor co-lead. This group, as we may guess, worked on the Reactive Streams specification. After gaining a better understanding of the nature of Reactive Streams and introducing new knowledge to the Rector team,  Stephane Maldini and Jon Brisbin announced Reactor 2.x in early 2015. Citing Stephane Maldini: "Reactor 2 was the first shot at Reactive Streams".

The most significant change in Reactor design was in extracting the EventBus and Stream features into separate modules. Also, a deep redesign enabled ...