Documentation lacks direct comparison of rx to futures and callbacks

[ephemerist]

The wiki home page (and the original techblog posting) uses a simple set of five remote calls to illustrate the problems with java futures (https://gist.github.com/benjchristensen/4671081) and java callbacks (https://gist.github.com/benjchristensen/4677544). However, there is no equivalent example which uses rxjava to solve the same problem - the documentation merely asserts that rx allows for more efficient execution and composition. Some sample code which addresses the same task as the futures and callbacks examples would be incredibly useful; as evidence that rxjava really is more composable, and as a simple guide to converting code that currently is implemented via callbacks or futures.

[benjchristensen]

Until our documentation solves this you can look at the following code which does exactly this use case: https://github.com/benjchristensen/ReactiveLab/blob/master/reactive-lab-edge/src/main/java/io/reactivex/lab/edge/routes/RouteForDeviceHome.java

[akarnokd]

Any progress on this?

[akarnokd]

I'm closing this issue due to inactivity. If you have further input on the issue, don't hesitate to reopen this issue or post a new one.