Spring Reactive is a sandbox for experimenting on the reactive support intended to be part of Spring Framework 5. For more information about this topic, you can have a look to Intro to Reactive programming and Reactive Web Applications talks.

Downloading Artifacts

Spring Reactive JAR dependency is available from Spring snapshot repository:

• Repository URL: https://repo.spring.io/snapshot/
• GroupId: org.springframework.reactive
• ArtifactId: spring-reactive
• Version: 0.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT

Documentation

See the current Javadoc.

Sample application

Spring Reactive Playground is a sample application based on Spring Reactive and on MongoDB, Couchbase and PostgreSQL Reactive database drivers.

Building from Source

Spring Reactive uses a Gradle-based build system. In the instructions below, ./gradlew is invoked from the root of the source tree and serves as a cross-platform, self-contained bootstrap mechanism for the build.

You can check the current build status on this Bamboo Spring Reactive build.

Prerequisites

Git and JDK 8 update 20 or later

Be sure that your JAVA_HOME environment variable points to the jdk1.8.0 folder extracted from the JDK download.

Install all spring-* jars into your local Maven cache

./gradlew install

Compile and test; build all jars, distribution zips, and docs

./gradlew build

Contributing

Feel free to send us your feedback on the issue tracker; Pull requests are welcome.

License

The Spring Reactive is released under version 2.0 of the Apache License.