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Actors (Java)
- Creating Actors
- UntypedActor API
- Identifying Actors
- Messages and immutability
- Send messages
- Receive messages
- Reply to messages
- Receive timeout
- Stopping actors
- HotSwap
- Stash
- Killing an Actor
- Actors and exceptions
- Initialization patterns
Typed Actors (Java)
- When to use Typed Actors
- The tools of the trade
- Creating Typed Actors
- Method dispatch semantics
- Messages and immutability
- Stopping Typed Actors
- Typed Actor Hierarchies
- Supervisor Strategy
- Receive arbitrary messages
- Lifecycle callbacks
- Proxying
- Lookup & Remoting
Logging (Java)
- How to Log
- Event Handler
- SLF4J
Event Bus (Java)
- Classifiers
- Event Stream
Scheduler (Java)
- Some examples
- From akka.actor.ActorSystem
- The Scheduler interface
- The Cancellable interface
Futures (Java)
- Introduction
- Execution Contexts
- Use with Actors
- Use Directly
- Functional Futures
- Callbacks
- Ordering
- Auxiliary methods
- Exceptions
- After
Fault Tolerance (Java)
- Fault Handling in Practice
- Creating a Supervisor Strategy
- Supervision of Top-Level Actors
- Test Application
Dispatchers (Java)
- Default dispatcher
- Looking up a Dispatcher
- Setting the dispatcher for an Actor
- Types of dispatchers
- Mailboxes
Routing (Java)
- Routers In Action
- How Routing is Designed within Akka
- Routers vs. Supervision
- Router usage
- Broadcast Messages
- Dynamically Resizable Routers
- Custom Router
- Configuring Dispatchers
Remoting (Java)
- Preparing your ActorSystem for Remoting
- Remote Configuration
- Looking up Remote Actors
- Creating Actors Remotely
- Serialization
- Routers with Remote Destinations
- Description of the Remoting Sample
- Remote Security
Serialization (Java)
- Usage
- Customization
- A Word About Java Serialization
- External Akka Serializers
Software Transactional Memory (Java)
- Overview of STM
- Scala STM
- Integration with Actors
Agents (Java)
- Creating and stopping Agents
- Updating Agents
- Reading an Agent's value
- Awaiting an Agent's value
Transactors (Java)
- Why Transactors?
- Actors and STM
- Coordinated transactions
- UntypedTransactor
Building Finite State Machine Actors (Java)
- Overview
- How State should be Handled
- Message Buncher Example
- State-Centric vs. Event-Centric
Testing Actor Systems (Java)
- Synchronous Unit Testing with TestActorRef
- Asynchronous Integration Testing with JavaTestKit
- CallingThreadDispatcher
- Tracing Actor Invocations
Akka Extensions (Java)
- Building an Extension
- Loading from Configuration
- Applicability
ZeroMQ (Java)
- Connection
Microkernel (Java)
- Distribution of microkernel application
Camel (Java)
- Additional Resources
- Introduction
- Consumer Actors
- Producer Actors
- Asynchronous routing
- Custom Camel routes
- Examples
Durable Mailboxes (Java)
- Overview
- File-based durable mailbox
- How to implement a durable mailbox
HowTo: Common Patterns
- Scheduling Periodic Messages
- Single-Use Actor Trees with High-Level Error Reporting
- Template Pattern

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