Learning Reactive Programming With Java 8

Learn how to use RxJava and its reactive Observables to build fast, concurrent, and powerful applications through detailed examples

About This Book

• Learn about Java 8’s lambdas and what reactive programming is all about, and how these aspects are utilized by RxJava
• Build fast and concurrent applications with ease, without the complexity of Java’s concurrent API and shared states
• Explore a wide variety of code examples to easily get used to all the features and tools provided by RxJava

Who This Book Is For

If you are a Java developer that knows how to write software and would like to learn how to apply your existing skills to reactive programming, this book is for you.

In Detail

Whether you are a Java expert or at a beginner level, you’ll benefit from this book, because it will teach you a brand new way of coding and thinking.

The book starts with an explanation of what reactive programming is, why it is so appealing, and how we can integrate it in to Java. It continues by introducing the new Java 8 syntax features, such as lambdas and function references, and some functional programming basics. From this point on, the book focuses on RxJava in depth. It goes through creating Observables, transforming, filtering, and combining them, and concurrency and testing to finish with extending the library itself.

This book is a definite tutorial in RxJava filled with a lot of well-described examples. It explains reactive programming concepts in plain and readable language, without scientific formulas and terms.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Reactive Programming
Chapter 2. Using the Functional Constructions of Java 8
Chapter 3. Creating and Connecting Observables, Observers, and Subjects
Chapter 4. Transforming, Filtering, and Accumulating Your Data
Chapter 5. Combinators, Conditionals, and Error Handling
Chapter 6. Using Concurrency and Parallelism with Schedulers
Chapter 7. Testing Your RxJava Application
Chapter 8. Resource Management and Extending RxJava