Rename Motivation to Overview and restore sub-sections

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Rossen Stoyanchev 6 years ago
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[[webflux-new-framework]]
== Motivation
== Overview
Why was Spring WebFlux created?
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[[webflux-why-reactive]]
== Define "`Reactive`"
=== Define "`Reactive`"
We touched on "`non-blocking`" and "`functional`" but what does reactive mean?
@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ If a publisher cannot slow down, it has to decide whether to buffer, drop, or fa
[[webflux-reactive-api]]
== Reactive API
=== Reactive API
Reactive Streams plays an important role for interoperability. It is of interest to libraries
and infrastructure components but less useful as an application API, because it is too
@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ of RxJava or another reactive library. See <<webflux-reactive-libraries>> for mo
[[webflux-programming-models]]
== Programming Models
=== Programming Models
The `spring-web` module contains the reactive foundation that underlies Spring WebFlux,
including HTTP abstractions, Reactive Streams <<webflux-httphandler,adapters>> for supported
@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ annotations and being called back.
[[webflux-framework-choice]]
== Applicability
=== Applicability
Spring MVC or WebFlux?
@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ unsure what benefits to look for, start by learning about how non-blocking I/O w
[[webflux-server-choice]]
== Servers
=== Servers
Spring WebFlux is supported on Tomcat, Jetty, Servlet 3.1+ containers, as well as on
non-Servlet runtimes such as Netty and Undertow. All servers are adapted to a low-level,
@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ For Undertow, Spring WebFlux uses Undertow APIs directly without the Servlet API
[[webflux-performance]]
== Performance versus Scale
=== Performance
Performance has many characteristics and meanings. Reactive and non-blocking generally
do not make applications run faster. They can, in some cases, (for example, if using the
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[[webflux-concurrency-model]]
== Concurrency Model
=== Concurrency Model
Both Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux support annotated controllers, but there is a key
difference in the concurrency model and the default assumptions for blocking and threads.

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