Re: [akka-user] Meaning of the $ in the actor's path

I thought I named my actor. My application.conf has the actor defined: AkkaDemo{ akka.actor.deployment { /rootActor { nr-of-instances = 5 } /actor1 { nr-of-instances = 10 } /actor2 { nr-of-instances = 10 }

Re: [akka-user] Meaning of the $ in the actor's path

That it's a name generated by akka. You did not name your actor, so a default name was generated for it. Those are generated by using base64 on a sequence number. It's best practice to actually explicitly name your actor btw. On 19 Aug 2016 00:41, "Mark Kaberman" wrote: >

[akka-user] Meaning of the $ in the actor's path

I am creating my Akka actors via Spring integration as described here . When I look at my actors paths I always see the $ followed by the letter. For example If I create an actor and send the message as rootActor =