Scala Reactive Programming

Principles of the Actor Model (or properties of Actor in the Actor Model)

The Actor Model has the following principles:

• Everything is an Actor
• In the Actor Model, an Actor is a first-class citizen
• An Actor has a mailbox to store data
• Actors should communicate with each other asynchronously
• Actors should communicate with each other in a non-blocking way
• Actors communicate with each other by sending messages
• All computations should be performed within an Actor
• An Actor can send or receive message to or from another Actor
• There is no direct communication between Actors
• Each Actor is identified using a unique name or address
• An Actor can send messages to other Actors whose addresses it has
• An Actor can have state or behavior or both
• An Actor ...