Aside from Reactor Core, Spring 5 can work with other reactive libraries, just like the popular RxJava 2.0. Follow these steps to guide on how to integrate RxJava 2.0 with Spring 5:
- Before we start, add the Maven dependencies of RxJava 2.x to pom.xml. This set of libraries has been used in the previous chapter.
- Open the DepartmentService class and add the following template methods that will soon be implemented as non-blocking transactions:
public interface DepartmentService {
// refer to sources
public Observable<Department> getDeptsRx();
public Single<Department> getDeptRx(int id);
public Flowable<String> getDepttNamesRx();
}
- Implement these template methods in DepartmentServiceImpl using RxJava 2.x stream APIs:
