Akka Futures Exceptions
What happens when an actor of a future throws an exception? According to the Akka documentation at http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/futures.html : It doesn't matter if an Actor or the dispatcher is completing the Future, if an Exception is caught the Future will contain it instead of a valid result. If a Future does contain an Exception, calling Await.result will cause it to be thrown again so it can be handled properly. I am not sure this is what I am seeing when running this piece of code: class Worker extends Actor { def receive = { case i: Int => throw new RuntimeException } }