Hello, There have been a few threads going back several years about whether we could align Apache Streams components to the Reactive Streams specification.
This came back to me last night when I read that Reactive Streams interfaces are built into Java 9, along with new classes under java.util.concurrent that facilitate connecting publishers and subscribers and handle message passing between them within a JVM. Wanted to bring this up on the list to find out if anyone would be interested in working on a proof-of-concept adapting a provider to use these new capabilities instead of or in addition to the interfaces in streams-core, and all of that providers tests to remove the dependency on streams-runtime-local that I think we’ve established consensus that we want to deprecate. Also, to find out whether anyone is fundamentally opposed to switching to a strict Java 9 dependency in Apache Streams, before spending significant time working on this. As context, Oracle has announced that maintenance releases for Java 8 will cease in September 2018. sblack...@apache.org
