Scala Reactive Programming

Akka Actor – ActorPath

Apart from the preceding four components, an Actor has some more components such as the following:

• ActorPath
• Actor Selection

In the Akka Toolkit, every Actor has a name or address to look it up from the ActorSystem. This name must be unique per level in the Akka Actor hierarchy. This name is also known as ActorPath.

If we take one level from the Akka Actor Hierarchy, each Actor should have a unique name. No two Actors at the same level have the same name. Two actors at different levels in the Actors Hierarchy may have the same name. There is no restriction or conflict with this because they are at different levels and they form different Actor Paths to identify them uniquely.

An ActorPath is used to look up an Actor ...