Mastering Functional Programming

Managing the life cycle

Akka context provides you with various methods for the life cycle management of an actor:

You can stop this or another actor from using ActorContext. A widespread pattern with actor-based programming is the following:

context stop self

The preceding idiom is often used to terminate actors that have accomplished their job and have nothing more to do.

Actors can change their behavior. The behavior of an actor is defined by its receive method:

However, as part of handling messages, you may want to change the way messages ...