On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 12:37 +0100, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm making an evaluation for picking an actor platform that I could > possibly use later this year. So I've started doing some experimentation. > My desire was to end with a single platform, Akka, for it appears to be > the most performing one. I have two possible scenarios: the former is to > use actors as an evolution of message-passing architectures I'm already > using inside simple applications, where the choice is oriented to > simplifying concurrency code rather than having big number of actors to > scale with; the latter, instead, is possibly a distributed scenario > (grid-oriented) where performance and scalability are important.
Is the choice of Akka decided or is there a possibility of a framework such as GPars (http://gpars.codehaus.org/) getting a look in? > I hoped that Akka would fit both purposes, but so far it seems to fall > short for scenario #1: in fact, as far as I understand, it doesn't support > publish & subscribe which is my favourite pattern. Can you confirm? Is it > possible to achieve it by means of some extension or is it in the future > milestones? Hummm... GPars might fall at hurdle #2 as the remote / cluster stuff isn't as well shaken down. > So, for scenario #1, I'm evaluating Jetlang. It seems fine, I'd just to > know whether some of you have some experience with it. > > thanks. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > [email protected] > http://tidalwave.it - http://fabriziogiudici.it > -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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