Akka Notes – Child Actors and ActorPath – 6

Actors are completely hierarchical. Whatever Actors that you create HAS to be a child of some other Actor. Let’s analyze…

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Akka Notes – Actor Lifecycle – Basic – 5

(Please note that this lifecycle write-up does not cover the preRestart or the postRestart methods. We’ll talk about them when…

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Akka Notes – ActorSystem (Configuration and Scheduling) – 4

As we saw from our previous posts, we could create an Actor using the actorOf method of the ActorSystem. There’s…

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Akka Notes – Actor Messaging – Request and Response – 3

Last time when we saw Actor messaging, we saw how fire-n-forget messages are sent (Meaning, we just send a message…

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Akka Notes – Actor Logging and Testing

In the first two parts (one, two), we briefly talked about Actors and how messaging works. In this part, let’s…

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Akka Notes – Actor Messaging – 1

From the introductory first part of the Akka Notes, we saw a bird’s eye view of Actors in the Akka…

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Akka Notes – Introducing Actors

Anyone who has done multithreading in the past won’t deny how hard and painful it is to manage multithreaded applications.…

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The Knapsack problem

I found the Knapsack problem tricky and interesting at the same time. I am sure if you are visiting this…

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Camel CXF Service With Multiple Query Parameters

While the awesome Apache Camel team is busy fixing the handling of the multiple parameters in the query, here’s a…

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