Dear hakkers, the first release candidate for Akka 2.3.0 is waiting just around the corner, and as the subject says, the Pipeline infrastructure in our shiny new Akka IO package, which was introduced in version 2.2.0, will be discontinued. The whole IO subsystem was marked “experimental” throughout the 2.2.x series and unfortunately this part of the experiment did not work out: the API is just too clunky and unintuitive.
We have something brewing which will be more than just a replacement for Pipelines: inspired by RxJava we are working on implementing Reactive Streams for Akka which will allow declarative transformation of streaming data of all kinds, with proper handling of back-pressure and of course fully typed. This will hopefully be available for preview in a few weeks and it will be included in the 2.4 milestones as soon as it is ready. Doing IO with this abstraction will be a breeze. So instead of keeping Pipelines in a zombie state and luring people into their dead arms we decided to cull them early. For those of you who need some fresh Akka but also want to stay on Pipelines for the time being we will release a bugfix release 2.2.4 very soon as well. Regards, Dr. Roland Kuhn Akka Tech Lead Typesafe – Reactive apps on the JVM. twitter: @rolandkuhn -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: http://akka.io/faq/ >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
