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Scala Books

• Akka in Action (Manning) - intro chapter 1 (done)
• Akka Essentials (reading it)
  • Download examples for the book

Scala Tutorials

• Scala School

Akka/Scala Actor

• http://scala-topics.org/basics-of-actors-in-scala-akka-part-1/

Akka Typed Actor

• Based on Active Object pattern
• Akka uses dynamic proxy classes in JDK to implement the proxy pattern
  • more on Dynamic Proxy Classes in JDK

Akka presentation

• http://www.infoq.com/interviews/boner-akka

Akka questions

• Are the number of actors specified/configured in router actor definition bounded by dispatcher config?
  • e.g. if RoundRobinRouter with 5 actors defined within a dispatcher config of max 4 threads with pool size factor of 1, hence max thread of 4, can there only be at most 4 actors? or is the assumption that there's only one actor per thread invalid?

Java

• Lambda

  • presentation by Brian Goetz(?)
    • worth re-watching
    • comparing example around 0:48
  • Jump-starting Lambda programming

• From Java 8, abstract class can be done with interface (with default methods)

• ForkJoinPool

• ThreadPool in EE Container

• Invokedynamic, medthod handle

  • invoke dynamic
  • Oracle documentation
  • Another method handles & invokedynamic