Create a HTTP server
Enough talking, time for action... First we need an instance of Vert.x. You can build one using Vertx.vertx():
Be aware that this method returns a new instance every time. So better store it if you need to reuse it.
Ok, now that we have our vertx instance, let's create a HTTP server. This is fairly easy:
Let's look at the server creation. We attach a request handler. A Handler is a method taking as parameter an event
(here the HTTP request) and reacting to it (here we write the message to the response). A Handler does not return a result, it provides its result in an asynchronous way. For instance, in our example, we write the HTTP response, sent
asynchronously to the client by Vert.x.
The request handler is called for each incoming HTTP request. We start seeing emerging the reactive flavor of this application: for every request, we react.