Spring 5.0 By Example

Understanding the Reactor RabbitMQ

The Reactor RabbitMQ tries to provide a reactive library to interact with the RabbitMQ rboker. It enables developers to create non-blocking applications based on the reactive stream, using RabbitMQ as a message-broker solution.

As we learned before, this kind of solution, in general, does not use a lot of memory. The project was based on the RabbitMQ Java client and has similar functionalities, if we compare it to the blocking solution.

We are not using the spring-amqp-starter, so the magic will not happen. We will need to code the beans declarations for the Spring context and we will do that in the following section.