That's a really interesting proposal, would you recommend that the master 
still handles the child actors but just passes them a reference to their 
newly created aggregated actor at construction?

On Wednesday, 23 April 2014 16:44:24 UTC+1, Richard Cole wrote:
>
> I'm currently using akka to implement a basic processing workflow.  My 
> MasterActor will receive a message that contains N number of elements 
> within it.  At this point I can divide these elements across Y number of 
> child actors.  If we imagine my elements are peoples names.  The child 
> actors role is to take it's sub-list of names and measure the length of 
> them, providing the MasterActor with a result once finished. 
>
> What is the most correct way (in the message passing sense) of letting the 
> MasterActor know that all of it's ChildActors have finished processing 
> their list of names?
>
> My main consideration is where there may be multiple requests happening at 
> once, so a single MasterActor may need to manage multiple requests and 
> multiple ChildActors.
>

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