Spring 5.0 Projects

Reactive span across Spring modules

By introducing a reactive web framework, WebFlux , Spring also made necessary changes in other modules to provide first-class support for WebFlux. Spring Boot, Spring Security, Thymeleaf, and Spring Data are among the few modules that are equipped with WebFlux capabilities. This can be described with the following diagram:

Spring Data has adopted a reactive paradigm and started supporting infinite streams from the database with the @Tailableannotation. Spring Data JPA is mostly associated with RDBMS, which is blocking in nature so it cannot support Reactive Programming.

Spring MVC is inherently blocking ...