Scala for the Impatient

Chapter 20. Actors

Topics in This Chapter

• 20.1 Creating and Starting Actors — page 290

• 20.2 Sending Messages — page 291

• 20.3 Receiving Messages — page 292

• 20.4 Sending Messages to Other Actors — page 293

• 20.5 Channels — page 294

• 20.6 Synchronous Messages and Futures — page 295

• 20.7 Thread Sharing — page 296

• 20.8 The Actor Life Cycle — page 299

• 20.9 Linking Actors — page 300

• 20.10 Designing with Actors — page 301

• Exercises — page 302

Actors provide an alternative to the traditional lock-based architecture of concurrent programs. By avoiding locks and shared state, actors make it easier to design programs that work correctly, ...