Building reactive applications using asynchronous session beans

Session beans can also become reactive and event driven just by using annotations. This recipe will show you how to do it.

Getting ready

Let's first add our Java EE 8 dependency:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
        <version>8.0</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

How to do it...

1. First, we create a User POJO:

public class User implements Serializable{

    private Long id;
    private String name;

    public User(long id, String name){
        this.id = id;
        this.name = name;
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

}

2. Then, we create our asynchronous session bean:

@Stateless...