Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Actors in Java: Akka & Jetlang
From: Russel Winder <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Václav Pech <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:05:10 +0000
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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."
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> http://tidalwave.it - http://fabriziogiudici.it
> 

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