Java's Spring Framework gets a new competitor
Datamill, an open source framework that leverages Java 8 and lambdas, is bringing functional programming to Java-based web development.
Positioned as an alternative to the popular Spring Framework, Datamill uses a functional reactive style built on RxJava, a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs, and leverages the Java Virtual Machine.
"Modern-day Spring allows you to be pretty concise," lead developer Ravi Chodavarapu said. "You can get an elaborate web service up and running using very little code. But when you write idiomatic Spring, you find yourself strewing your code with lots of magic annotations, whose function and behavior are hidden within complex framework code and documentation."
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