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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 5. Messaging Channels

In the previous chapter, you looked at Message Channels (128) as a basic communications mechanism that supports actor-to-actor messaging. In this chapter, I will expand on the basic channel mechanism and explore several kinds of channels, each with a specific advantage when dealing with various application and integration challenges.

Point-to-Point Channel: This is the “bread and butter” of the Actor model because it replaces the normal method invocations found in object-oriented systems. Actor communication forms a natural Point-to-Point Channel (151) because the actor sending the Message (130) must know the address of the receiving actor. This pattern will demonstrate message ordering and show why actors must ...

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