2. what?
Platform for next generation, event driven,
scalable and fault tolerant architectures on the
JVM.
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3. akka
A actor-based concurrency framework
Provides solutions for non blocking concurrency
Written in Scala, also works in Java
Open source
Now at 1.3-RC2 (to be released this weekend)
Lead developer and founder: Jonas Boner
JRockit, AspectWerkz, AspectJ, Terracotta
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7. actors
defined in the 1973 paper by Carl Hewitt
popularized by Erlang
alleviates the dev
from explicit locking
and thread management
easy to write concurrent and parallel systems
actors like objects BUT dont share state
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