Actors in Scala

by Philipp Haller, Frank Sommers

Recent trends in computer architecture make concurrency and parallelism an essential ingredient of efficient program execution. The actor model of concurrency allows you to express real-world concurrency in a natural way using concurrent processes that communicate via asynchronous messages.Scala is a programming language for the Java virtual machine, providing excellent support for both object-oriented and functional programming. By including a powerful actor framework in its standard library, Scala offers a compelling approach to tackle concurrent programming. Scala's actors let you apply the actor concurrency model to the JVM, enabling real-world solutions that are efficient, scalable, and robust.Published by Artima, this is the first book on Scala's actors, co-authored by the creator and lead maintainer, Philipp Haller, and Frank Sommers. Starting with the fundamentals of the actor concurrency model, this book offers a comprehensive tutorial on practical programming with actors in Scala. It enables you to leverage the full power of today's and tomorrow's multi-core processors by describing both basic and advanced features of Scala's actor framework in-depth.

Genres: Programming

169 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 2010

Reviews

[Arvind Balasubramaniam · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is outdated considering that as of Scala 2.11.0, the Scala actors library is deprecated. Nevertheless, it provides a fairly straight-forward well-explained intro into actors as well as a chapter on Akka, which seemed a bit compressed with examples that didn't contain much explanation. I'm thinking of picking up a separate book now to learn about Akka actors.

[Daniel Korzekwa · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book presents concepts of Actors concurrency model in Scala programming language on about 150 pages of text. It is mostly focused on API side of Actors model and it unfortunately doesn't discuss in details topics around recovery and fault tolerance in actor based systems. If you know what actors are in general and you did some basic tutorials from the web on how to program Actors with pure Scala API or Akka framework, then this book won't give you too much beyond this point.

[Ferhat · Rating 3 out of 5]

simple, basic and understandable introduction to the Scala actors. it can be a good starting point for who want to learn actor model and especially Akka.