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Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka
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Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka

by Vaughn Vernon
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
368 pages
14h 31m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2. The Actor Model with Scala and Akka

There are a few distinct ways to program with actors. The Actor model can be used through an actor library toolkit, or it can be implemented directly in a language. ActorScript is one example of an actor programming language. Actors were added to Smalltalk. Erlang has actors but is not actor-based through and through. Erlang supports actors/processes as first-class concurrency abstractions. More recently, languages such as Scala and Scratch support actor-based programming.

Scala, a Java virtual machine (JVM) language, also does not implement actors as part of a programming language. Rather, Scala comes with an actor library–based toolkit called Akka. Thus, Scala has significant similarities to Erlang ...

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