Ready your Java 8 Reactive apps now, Reactor 3.0 GA is out !
After more than a year of work, multiple milestones and fine tuning based on much feedback, I have the pleasure of announcing Reactor 3 General Availability. You will find Reactor Core 3.0.2.RELEASE on Maven Central.
What is Reactor 3 ?
Reactor 3 provides a powerful and efficient reactive programming model for Java 8 based applications. The model builds upon the experience of both Reactor 2 and RxJava 1 and introduces a fluent way to compose asynchronous backpressure-ready event processing. Spring Framework 5 uses Reactor 3 to build and eventually expose a complete reactive story.
Its design relies on an extensible execution model that favors event processing colocation. Typically, Reactor will be jumping threads between event flow stages only when explicitly asked so. For instance, in-memory operations such as list access or payload transformation do not usually require a thread boundary. If the operation producer or receiver might take time, users are expected to operate their flow with Flux#publishOn / Mono#publishOn or Flux#subscribeOn / Mono#subscribeOn and choose a Scheduler to run on. Alternatively, if a user is combining the results of many Publisher as with …
