Re: [akka-user] Initializing task-specific actors

2014-08-04 Thread Konrad Malawski
Both ways are perfectly fine, pick one and try to be consistent with it in your codebase :-) More info in the docs: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/actors.html#initialization-patterns On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Tim Pigden tim.pig...@optrak.com wrote: I'm using actors to

[akka-user] Initializing task-specific actors

2014-08-01 Thread Tim Pigden
I'm using actors to perform single tasks. I have 2 obvious methods by which I can start them off I can pass the instructions into the constructor and then have them start their stuff in preStart Alternatively I can start them off in an idle state (become idle) and send them the instructions