"# Java and Scala API # Fault tolerance (using Erlang-style supervisor hierarchies) on service level # Powerful and simple concurrency abstractions through the Actor Model and Active Object Model # Event-based, staged, asynchronous workflows (SEDA-in-a-box) # Lightweight thread dispatcher (you can e
"Actors are excellent for solving of problems where you have many independent processes that can work in isolation and only interact with other Actors through message passing. This model fits many problems. But the actor model is unfortunately a terrible model for implementing truly shared state. E.
"The simplest way you can use Akka is to use the actors as services in your Web application. All that’s needed to do that is to put the Akka charts as well as its dependency jars into ‘WEB-INF/lib’. You also had to put the ‘akka.conf’ config file in the ‘$AKKA_HOME/config’ directory. N
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