[Lift] Re: Actor and clusters?

2009-07-10 Thread marius d.
Actors are local to the JVM. Scala also has RemoteActors but we don't really use them. For a lift app in a cluster environment we have to have sticky sessions concept and the reason is that functions bound to a session and mostly the references they are holding are not serialized distributed. So

[Lift] Re: Actor and clusters?

2009-07-10 Thread DFectuoso
Thanks, that was very useful, to enable sticky variables i would do something like (explain here http://wiki.stax.net/w/index.php/Application_Clustering ) that? So bottom line? An actor can send a message an actor that is living in another JVM using sticky variables(or anything else) (sorry i

[Lift] Re: Actor and clusters?

2009-07-10 Thread marius d.
On Jul 10, 10:40 am, DFectuoso santiago1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, that was very useful, to enable sticky variables i would do something like (explain herehttp://wiki.stax.net/w/index.php/Application_Clustering ) that? So bottom line? An actor can send a message an actor that is living

[Lift] Re: Actor and clusters?

2009-07-10 Thread DFectuoso
Cool, thanks, this pretty much solves the question =) On Jul 10, 12:54 am, marius d. marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 10, 10:40 am, DFectuoso santiago1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, that was very useful, to enable sticky variables i would do something like (explain

[Lift] Re: Actor and clusters?

2009-07-10 Thread DFectuoso
Refering to why i want to know this: Im using stax because it's free, they are pretty cool and lift/scala worked out of the box pretty fast(i was having some issues getting some hosting for whatever i do in my free time with lift/scala). They have a cluster option right now(still, free) so, they