Hello all! I have to create the simple workflow execution engine, that supports timeouts in its states. The sample made-up definition and the sequence of the states could be as following:
1) Send the confirmation e-mail to the customer *once* 2) Await the confirmation event for 24 hours 3) If there is a timeout error - then send another e-mail to the customer with the reminder and wait for 48 hours 4) If there is the confirmation event - then complete the registration and send welcome e-mail 5) if there's another timeout from step 3 - then cancel the registration process and cleanup the database I think that I could easily create *10K-100K* of instances of the actors in the JVM - actors seems to be cheap, however I'm not sure - how the timeouts for the states will be processed, could I jam into some bottleneck with the scheduled events processing? What is the recommended thread pool size for 10K of actors, ballpark value? - how do I *persist* the states of the workflow actors and *recover* them with the correct timeouts, if for some reason actor dies on step 2 after 10 hours of waiting, and upon the restart I need to adjust the timeout to be not 24 hours, but 14 hours. I know that I can start FSM with any state and state data, perhaps I could also set the custom step timeout upon init of the FSM. I think that I could create some sort of the database that may keep the state and state data of each of workflows actor, but may be I am reinventing the wheel and there's already some *akka-scheduler* contrib module I overlooked? Thanks in advance! -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
