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Scala Reactive Programming
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Scala Reactive Programming

by Rambabu Posa
February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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A Scala Future versus a Java Future

We will discuss one of the important topics such as the differences between a Scala Future and a Java Future in this section:

  • A Java Future works in a synchronous blocking way. It does not work in an asynchronous non-blocking way, whereas a Scala Future works in an asynchronous non-blocking way.
  • If we want an asynchronous non-blocking feature, we should use Java 8's CompletableFuture. However, if we observe the CompletableFuture code, it is a bit clumsy, not elegant, and not concise, unlike that of Scala's Future. It is a bit tough to reason with.
  • Scala Futures support very elegant and concise ways of writing concurrency code and support Concurrency and true Parallelism, very well. Java Futures/CompletableFutures ...
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