Tutorial: Reactive Spring Boot Part 1 – A Kotlin REST Service

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This is the first step in a new tutorial showing how to create a Reactive Spring Boot application: Creating a Reactive service with Kotlin.This month (October 2019) I presented a live demo at SpringOne Platform, showing how to build a Spring Boot application that displays real-time prices, using Spring (obviously), Kotlin and JavaFX. The live demo was recorded and is available as a 70 minute video, but I thought it might be easier to digest as a series of shorter videos with an accompanying blog post, explaining each of the steps more slowly and in more detail, and that’s what this tutorial is going to be.This blog post contains a video showing the process step-by-step and a textual walk-through (adapted from the transcript of the video) for those who prefer a written format.This tutorial is a series of steps during which we will build a full Spring Boot application featuring a Kotlin back end, a Java client and a JavaFX user interface.This first step in the tutorial is to create a K…