Head First Akka with Scala

Howdy

Have you enjoy Scala yet ? Have you love this language and its actor model yet ?

Probably you have. I will now explore a really cool framework for building distributed system with actor model. It’s Akka Framework. It’s a reactive framework.

 

 

If you haven’t heard about the term reactive you need to check out this one first.

 

First we will need to install SBT first. If you have already familiar with java. Managing dependency, installing library, setting up structure is really painful if you are not using tools or IDE. SBT is a simple build tools that doesn’t sucks like Ant (with XML hell). You need to download that first from here.

Now we can start by creating SBT project  for this lesson. Create a file build.sbt and insert the following content into the file.

 

Run sbt compile for the first time for initializing sbt and your project. It will download the required library for Akka. Your output might be different with me. At the first time it will take awhile. Just be patience.

 

Create directory src/main/scala

 

Create file HelloActors.scala. Insert the following code

Run the project by executing sbt run from the directory where build.sbt created.

 

 

Now you can continue exploring by download the following chapter and write some code !!.

Cheers

 

References :

http://www.reactive.io/tips/2014/03/28/getting-started-with-actor-based-programming-using-scala-and-akka/

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.4/intro/getting-started.html

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0/intro/getting-started-first-scala.html

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0/index.html

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.4/scala/index-network.html/

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.4/scala/cluster-usage.html#preparing-your-project-for-clustering

Tools :

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/scala.html

http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IntelliJIDEA/Scala?_ga=1.109172037.1933020012.1406117705

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