Excellent news! Akka Persistence is a real game changer.
Thanks to everyone involved! Greetings Odd On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Giovanni <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations! > > I am very impressed about the big work done on Akka. > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Björn Antonsson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> We—the Akka committers— are proud to announce the final release of Akka >> 2.3.0, the first step of the Rollins >> milestone<https://docs.google.com/document/d/18W9-fKs55wiFNjXL9q50PYOnR7-nnsImzJqHOPPbM4E/pub>(named >> after Sonny Rollins). >> >> The key features of this release are: >> Akka Persistence >> >> This module allows you to write actors with persistent state that >> survives hardware and software failures, and it also provides an opt-in >> mechanism for upgrading actor message sending to at-least-once delivery >> semantics. The former >> Eventsourced<https://github.com/eligosource/eventsourced>add-on was ported >> into the Akka project by Martin >> Krasser <https://twitter.com/mrt1nz>. While the working principle of >> persisting messages (representing commands or changes to the actor state) >> to an append-only journal has been retained, there have been numerous >> improvements<http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.0/project/migration-guide-eventsourced-2.3.x.html>in >> the API and implementation. >> Java 8 Support >> >> Akka is prepared for the upcoming release of JDK 8, in particular its >> most awaited feature: lambda expressions. You can use them to implement >> Actors <http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.0/java/lambda-actors.html> and >> Finite >> State Machines <http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.0/java/lambda-fsm.html>in a >> fluent fashion—enjoying a pattern match builder or behavior changes >> using “become()” without having to declare anonymous inner classes. >> Cluster Improvements >> >> We have learned several things from running Akka on 2400 >> nodes<http://typesafe.com/blog/running-a-2400-akka-nodes-cluster-on-google-compute-engine>, >> leading to several performance improvements and usability enhancements. The >> main change is that with this version a cluster can heal back from being >> partially “unreachable”: when the affected nodes become responsive again, >> the failure condition is cleared and everything continues normally. A >> configurable timeout after which unresponsive nodes are removed from the >> cluster takes care of fatally failed machines. >> Activator Templates >> >> In order to get you started with these new features in no time, several >> Activator <http://typesafe.com/platform/getstarted> templates await your >> exploration: >> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-camel-java<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-camel-java> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-camel-scala<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-camel-scala> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-cluster-java<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-cluster-java> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-cluster-scala<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-cluster-scala> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-fsm-java-lambda<http://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-fsm-java-lambda>(using >> Java 8 lambdas) >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-fsm-scala<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-fsm-scala> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-main-java<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-main-java> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-main-scala<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-main-scala> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-multi-node-scala<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-multi-node-scala> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-persistence-java<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-persistence-java> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-persistence-scala<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-persistence-scala> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-remote-java<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-remote-java> >> - >> >> >> akka-sample-remote-scala<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-sample-remote-scala> >> - >> >> >> akka-cluster-sharding-scala<https://typesafe.com/activator/template/akka-cluster-sharding-scala> >> >> Thanks to the Community >> >> For this release we had the help of 44 committers, a huge “Thank you!” >> goes to: >> >> Eugene Platonov, Marcus Ljungblad, Eugene Vigdorchik, Dario Rexin, Levi >> Notik, Eric Pederson, Marius Seritan, Mark "Justin" Waks, Gastón M. >> Tonietti, Bryan Hunt, Taylor Leese, Rob David, Adam Voss, oakwhiz, Francois >> Armand, Nabeel Ali Memon, Michael Pollmeier, Ben McCann, Tomasz Nurkiewicz, >> Akara Sucharitakul, Konrad Malawski, Dan Hopkins, Luc Perkins, Gaetan >> Hervouet, Joa Ebert, Andrey Stepachev, Gustav Åkesson, Sander Mak, Paulo >> Siqueira, Ian Wormsbecker, Daniel Hobi, Przemysław Piotrowski (Typesafe >> personnel excluded). >> >> For the full details please check out the release >> announcement<http://akka.io/news/2014/03/05/akka-2.3.0-released.html>on the >> Akka site. >> >> >> -- >> Björn Antonsson >> Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> – Reactive Apps on the JVM >> twitter: @bantonsson <http://twitter.com/#!/bantonsson> >> >> -- >> >>>>>>>>>> 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. >> > > > > -- > > Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. > > Wisdom is not putting it into a fruit salad. > > > A person is just about as big as the things that make him angry. > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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. > -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> 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. 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