Pro Spring MVC with WebFlux: Web Development in Spring Framework 5 and Spring Boot 2

© Marten Deinum and Iuliana Cosmina 2021

M. Deinum, I. CosminaPro Spring MVC with WebFluxhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5666-4_9

9. Introduction to Spring WebFlux

Marten Deinum¹   and Iuliana Cosmina²

(1)

MEPPEL, Drenthe, The Netherlands

(2)

EDINBURGH, UK

 

In previous chapters, typical Java web applications were built and run on an instance of Apache Tomcat server that was external or embedded in the application. Whatever the case, the Spring DispatcherServlet was responsible for directing incoming HTTP requests to all the handlers declared in the application. But, can an application like the ones we developed so far be used in a real production environment? How many HTTP requests can DispatcherServlet handle at the same time? Can that number be ...