I'd guess the ideas in the book work for Java and for Scala.  I'm sure the
akka community will help you port anything you struggle with.
On Sep 29, 2012 4:26 PM, "Fabrizio Giudici" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:09:16 +0200, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>  Akka's own documentation is rather good, and free, and has dedicated
>> sections to cover all the relevant functionality via both the Scala and
>> Java APIs.
>>
>> Having said that (and my opinion may be seen as controversial here)...
>>  You
>> may find it easier to start learning the Scala API and then apply that
>> understanding to Java.  Pattern matching and first-class functions are
>> both
>> very heavily used concepts and can be directly expressed in Scala, once
>> you
>> understand the "big picture" then Java's encoding of these ideas will be
>> far less distracting from the core ideas.
>>
>
> I don't have problems with the Akka APIs (Java in my case), which I'm
> already using - though still at an elementary level.
> I'm searching for something specifically aimed at tests with agents. For
> instance, in my studies so far I've ended up with writing a small message
> recorder and the Hamcrest support for post-test assertions, as in some
> tests I'm verifying that there's a specific exchange of messages. I bet
> this is naive, due to the async nature of ages. What I need are agent
> testing best practices, I suppose there are some out there...
>
>
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