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Kishori Sharan, Java 9 Revealed, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2592-9_17

17. Reactive Streams

Kishori Sharan1 

(1)Montgomery, Alabama, USA

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • What a stream is

  • What the Reactive Streams initiative is and its specification and Java API

  • The Reactive Streams API in JDK and how to use it

  • How to create publishers, subscribers, and processors using the Java API for Reactive Streams in JDK 9

What Is a Stream?

A stream is a sequence of items produced by a producer and consumed by one or more consumers. This producer-consumer model is also known as source/sink model or publisher-subscriber model. I refer to it as a publisher-subscriber model in this chapter. I use the terms element, item, data item, and data interchangeably ...

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