In the previous chapter, you were introduced to the process of creating a new Java project and, utilizing the capabilities of Apache Maven, adding the MariaDB R2DBC driver as a dependency to the project. Now that you’ve successfully created an application capable of taking advantage of an R2DBC implementation, it’s time to dive into the capabilities of the specification.
In this chapter, we’re going to expand on that project to examine the Connection object implementations available in the driver. Before continuing, if you haven’t ...