Hi Chris,
the impact is that mailbox requirements (like that Stash requires
DequeBasedMessageQueueSemantics) are not picked up. But your question makes me
worried: “pass instances” is not legal behavior. Actors must be created (and
re-created) by the ActorCell in order for supervision to make
So 2.3 introduced changes that wreck havoc with those of us using Akka from
languages like Jruby. Namely being forced to pass java classes to props
instead of being able to pass instances.
stack overflow has a question about this that illustrates the problem: