This is the third part of my blog series on reactive programming, which will give an introduction to WebFlux — Spring’s reactive web framework.

1. An Introduction to Spring Webflux

The original web framework for Spring — Spring Web MVC — was built for the Servlet API and Servlet containers.

WebFlux was introduced as part of Spring Framework 5.0. Unlike Spring MVC, it does not require the Servlet API. It is fully asynchronous and non-blocking, implementing the Reactive Streams specification through the Reactor project (see my previous blog post).

WebFlux requires Reactor as a core dependency but it is also interoperable with other reactive libraries via Reactive Streams.

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