Migration Guide 0.7.x to 0.8.x
This is a case-by-case migration guide from Akka 0.7.x (on Scala 2.7.7) to Akka 0.8.x (on Scala 2.8.x)
Cases:
Actor.send is removed and replaced in full with Actor.!
myActor send "test"
becomes
myActor ! "test"
Actor.! now has it’s implicit sender defaulted to None
def !(message: Any)(implicit sender: Option[Actor] = None)
“import Actor.Sender.Self” has been removed because it’s not needed anymore
Remove
import Actor.Sender.Self
Actor.spawn now uses manifests instead of concrete class types
val someActor = spawn(classOf[MyActor])
becomes
val someActor = spawn[MyActor]
Actor.spawnRemote now uses manifests instead of concrete class types
val someActor = spawnRemote(classOf[MyActor],"somehost",1337)
becomes
val someActor = spawnRemote[MyActor]("somehost",1337)
Actor.spawnLink now uses manifests instead of concrete class types
val someActor = spawnLink(classOf[MyActor])
becomes
val someActor = spawnLink[MyActor]
Actor.spawnLinkRemote now uses manifests instead of concrete class types
val someActor = spawnLinkRemote(classOf[MyActor],"somehost",1337)
becomes
val someActor = spawnLinkRemote[MyActor]("somehost",1337)
Transaction.atomic and friends are moved into Transaction.Local._ and Transaction.Global._
We now make a difference between transaction management that are local within a thread and global across many threads (and actors).
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