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... > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog> - > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
