MicroProfile Reactive Streams title about microprofile-reactive-streams-operators

[rdruss]

What about MicroProfile Reactive Operations. I know Operators as a term has been associated to at least Kubernetes and Kafka and might be confusing if you add MicroProfile to that list. Just a thought.

[matzew]

-1 on Operators

[matzew]

I think I do like "Reactive Operations"

[cescoffier]

They are "operators" not "operations". It's a library of operators. I agree that "operators" is an overloaded term, but "operations" does not really work here.

[jroper]

Combinators is another word that fits, but that has a few problems, it's quite a long word, and also it's possibly unfamiliar to a lot of people - combinators is a term commonly used in functional programming and could even scare off developers who are not familiar with functional programming.

[viktorklang]

Transformations?

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[jroper]

We could consider acronyms - not sure whether there are any naming guidelines for MicroProfile, so far all the names are boring descriptive full names. But...

MPRC - MicroProfile Reactive Combinators
MROC/MPROC - MicroProfile Reactive Operators and Combinators
JRC - Java Reactive Combinators
JARC - JAva Reactive Combinators
JRSC - Java Reactive Streams Combinators

[matzew]

MPRSC - MicroProfile Reactive Streams Combinators

Give the last suggestions are all a mouthful, I now wonder, if, in the context of reactive streams, the "operator" term does work ?

MPRSO - MicroProfile Reactive Stream(s) Operators ?

[jroper]

From @venkats:

The motivation to get the implementation into the JDK for MicroProfile is convincing. Will the implementation be available for non-MicroProfile applications as well? From what I know so far talking to many developers, that will truly be welcome. From that point of view, calling it "MicroProfile Reactive Streams" may be rather limiting, but a more general name may be desirable.

I'm not sure whether the MicroProfile community would generally be for against having a MicroProfile project that didn't have "MicroProfile" in the name, but this is a good point, the library will be useful for more than just MicroProfile and if it gets broader uptake than just MicroProfile this will help adoption by the JDK, so perhaps consider leaving MicroProfile out of the name?

An argument against this though would be that it would be some excellent marketing for the awarewness of MicroProfile (and potentially Jakarta EE assuming MicroProfile becomes part of it) if the library was used outside of MicroProfile but had the MicroProfile name.

[jroper]

As decided in the Reactive hangout today, "MicroProfile Reactive Streams Operators" is what we'll go with.