ReactiveSocket is network protocol with client and server that uses Reactive Streams (and optimistically Reactive Stream IO as it gets defined).

It enables the following interaction models via async message passing over a single network connection:

• request/response (stream of 1)
• request/stream (finite stream of many)
• fire-and-forget (no response)
• event subscription (infinite stream of many)

This is the core project for Java that implements the protocol and exposes Reactive Stream APIs. Typically most use will come via another library that uses this one.

For example:

• ReactiveSocket over WebSockets using Netty reactivesocket-websockets-netty
• ReactiveSocket over TCP using Netty reactivesocket-tcp-netty
• ReactiveSocket over Aeron using Aeron Java reactivesocket-aeron-java
• ReactiveSocket over HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 using Netty reactivesocket-http-netty

ReactiveSocket is for communicating across network boundaries thus it is intended to be polyglot. Common libraries include:

• ReactiveSocket over WebSockets using Javascript (for Node.js and browsers) reactivesocket-websockets-javascript

Others can be found in the ReactiveSocket Github project.

Snapshots are available via JFrog.

Example:

repositories {
    maven { url 'https://oss.jfrog.org/libs-snapshot' }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'io.reactivesocket:reactivesocket:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
}

No releases to Maven Central or JCenter have occurred yet.

For bugs, questions and discussions please use the Github Issues.

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