The book "Akka Concurrency" is good -- it helped me with understanding some of the WHY of supervision, for example.
I saw a link earlier to a minimal project for a cluster application for scala -- would that kind of example, but for Java, help? I have some experiments I've written for Akka that I could pare down, but I can't swear they're best practices. I'd also have to get clearance from my employer, but I doubt they'd object, since I haven't convinced them to use Akka yet so there's no proprietary information in them. On Friday, January 20, 2017 at 9:53:41 AM UTC-5, Qian Liu wrote: > > Thanks a lot for all the replies.. Since the documents should be good user > manual but not purely documents for the developed technologies from the > developers' perspectives. It could be good if the docs start by a "Get > Started" section (including how to install, configure) to firstly make it > runnable. Followed by a > 1) high level architecture/structure for the main classes/concepts *or * > 2) even the background knowledge for the programming model > would be necessary for a general user manual. not all the beginners have > enough background to start using a new toolkit. > also, the manual should be third party libraries/tools independent, why > should a new-comer for Akka know sbt and scala but not maven/gradle and > python, etc(since you claim that Akka is also available for Java > developers, not all java developers have the same tools in their > toolboxes). The user manual should be completely independent from the usage > of such tools which only brings the beginners difficulties to contextualize. > > BTW, currently I'm using "Akka in Action" and also "Applied Akka > Patterns", especially the latter book, makes me get some feelings about > Akka. Actually it's good to > 1) start from "Applied Akka Patterns", knowledge about Actor Models > 2) then combine with Akka official documents, "Akka in Action" and Akka > API docs > to learn Akka. > > Best regards, > > On Thursday, 19 January 2017 20:41:08 UTC+1, Josep Prat wrote: >> >> Welcome to Akka! >> As Lutz already said, I would recommend "Akka in Action". The only catch >> is that the code is mainly in Scala. >> I have a question though, why do you say the official documentation is >> terrible? I personally find Akka docs quite good. What would you change/add >> to the current ones? >> >> Best, >> Josep >> >> On Thursday, January 19, 2017 at 2:34:29 PM UTC+1, Qian Liu wrote: >>> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> I'm new-comer to Akka, the official documents for Akka learning is >>> terrible. not very well structured. Beginners will soon feel lost with >>> these official documents. Do you know any better resources to learn? I'm a >>> java developer. >>> >>> Thanks a lot. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Qian Liu >>> >> -- >>>>>>>>>> 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. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
