Different Scala Actor Implementations Overview

Question

I\'m trying to find the \'right\' actor implementation. I realized there is a bunch of them and it\'s a bit confusing to pick one. Personally I\'m especially interested in r

Answer 1

As far as I know, only Scala and Akka support remote actors.

Akka is backed up by scalablesolutions, which offer commerical support and plug ins for akka. Akka seems like a heavyweight solution, which targets integration with existing frameworks (camel, AMQP, JTA, Comet, Spring, Redis) and additionally STMs and persistence.

Akka compared to Scala doesn't support nested receives, but supports hotswapping the actors message loop and has both, thread based and event based actors and so called "Event-based single-threaded" ones.