REACTO - A Functional Reactive Microservices Framework
What’s new in Spring 5? This is the most anticipated ask for any Spring aspirant and to be honest why it shouldn’t be, because Spring is such a awesome framework that we always ask more from it. This time too Spring came with a bunch of interesting and cool features. Java 8 is now an inevitable part of Spring 5 and so here the magic begins. Out of all the features that Spring 5 provides that most interesting ONES seems to me are: 1) Spring is now FUNCTIONAL – Functions are now First Class Citizens and they can passed anywhere. This is where Lambdas comes in. 2) Spring is now REACTIVE – Spring now supports Reactive Extensions (Rx) and it supports the Reactive Manifesto, the concepts on which the Reactive Programming is based. This post is not about the features that Spring 5 embeds. In this post we are going to discuss about a Microservice framework known as REACTO. The main aspect that distinguishes this framework from others is that its Fully FUNCTIONAL and REACTIVE