Akka Kill vs. Stop vs. Poison Pill?

Question

Newbie question of Akka - I\'m reading over Akka Essentials, could someone please explain the difference between Akka Stop/Poison Pill vs. Kill ? The book offers just a smal

Answer 1

You can use both actor stop and poison pill to stop processing of actors, and kill to terminate the actor in its entirety. x.stop is a call you make in akka receive method, will only replace actor state with new actor after calling postStop. x ! PoisonPill is a method that you pass to actor to stop processing when the actor is running(Recommended). will also replace actor state after calling postStop. x.kill will terminate the actor and will remove the actor in the actor Path and replace the entire actor with a new actor.