August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
14h 31m
English
The patterns in this chapter provide you with a basic understanding of messaging with the Actor model and Akka. You gain not only a foundational vocabulary but also primary knowledge of how to design parts of a single actor system and how they can be integrated.
Message Channel: This is the means by which a message producer and a message consumer communicate, but both the producer and consumer remain decoupled from one another. Using the Actor model, logically speaking a Message Channel (128) is the actor’s mailbox, a first-in, first-out (FIFO) queue for all incoming messages.
Message: A fundamental building block ...