We will create a sample web application with the WebFlux framework. The application will simply access existing student information from a data store. Instead of making a fully fledged application, we will focus more on how to access data in a reactive manner with the WebFlux framework.
We will use Spring Boot to kickstart the development. For those who are new to Spring Boot, it is a tool and part of Spring Horizon, which is designed to speed up and simplify the bootstrapping and development of new Spring-based applications.
You might have come across bulky XML and other configurations repeatedly in Spring projects. The Spring team was well aware of this and has finally developed a tool called Spring Boot, aimed at freeing the developer from providing a boilerplate configuration, which is not only tedious but time consuming.
We will create...