netty

Ratpack is an excellent tool for building RESTful^[1] applications. However, to benefit most of it, we need to know the tool a little bit better. It applies to Ratpack handler’s mechanism - it is much different compared to what we have learned by using many popular MVC frameworks. In today’s blog post I would like to show you a relatively simple example that confused many newcomers.

Micronaut framework inventors says it is designed for building modern microservice applications. It supports reactive and non-blocking HTTP requests processing thanks to a powerful network application framework - Netty. In this blog post I will give you a quick and practical introduction to a asynchronous HTTP requests processing using a simple demo application. No more talking, it’s time to make our hands dirty with some Micronaut application code!