Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka

Index

Symbols

! (exclamation character), symbols as method names in tell() method, 47

Numbers

32-bit processors, 111

64-bit processors, 111

A

Actor base class

Dotsero, 421

Implementing Actors, 50

Actor model, introduction to, 4

actions actors perform, 13

characteristics of actors and actor systems, 13–15

concurrency and parallelism in, 16–17

contrasted with general messaging systems, 18–19

controversy regarding unbounded nondeterminism, 21

explicit nature of, 22–23

extensions available with Akka, 15

as finite state machines, 18

managing nondeterministic systems, 19–21

Object-Capability model (OCM), 21–22

origin of actors, 11–13

overview of, 10–11

performance benefits of, 122–124

performance benefits of being lock-free, 16

Request-Reply pattern, ...