Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Impact of processing models on usability

Our comparison between Web MVC and WebFlux should contain some qualitative as well as quantitative indicators. One of the most common qualitative indicators that is measured is the learning curve. Web MVC is a well-known framework with more than ten years of active use in the enterprise arena. It relies on the most simple programming paradigm, which is the imperative programming paradigm. For a business, this means that if we start a new project based on plain Spring 5 and Web MVC, it will be much easier to find skilled developers and much cheaper to teach new ones. In contrast, with WebFlux, the situation will be significantly different. First of all, WebFlux is a new technology, which has not yet ...