Scala Reactive Programming

Akka Actor – Dispatcher

In the Akka Toolkit, the Dispatcher component plays a very important role and acts as an engine. In simple words, it is responsible for coordination; it takes the incoming message and hands it over to its Actor. In the Akka Toolkit, the Dispatcher component is useful for working on messages, so we call it MessageDispatcher.

The Akka's dispatcher performs the following tasks:

• It picks up the incoming message from senders (Actor or non-Actor)
• It publishes that message to its Actor's mailbox message queue
• It checks whether its Actor is available or not to process that message
• If its Actor is available, it picks up the message from the message queue and hands it over to its Actor to take the necessary action
• It decouples ...