Hi Roland, 

Thanks for your clarification, very helpful to get understand this in the 
proper way. 

Kind regards, 

Olger

On Saturday, May 10, 2014 12:34:50 PM UTC+2, Akka Team wrote:
>
> Hi Olger,
>
> Akka Extensions are a mechanism that allows arbitrary actors to access a 
> given object or piece of functionality that is scoped to the ActorSystem, 
> i.e. created only once. This means that creation happens conceptually 
> “before the first actor is started”, it is merely retrieved when needed 
> (and optimized to be only created at the first appearance of need). This in 
> turn means that arguments to its constructor must come from the ActorSystem 
> itself, hence from configuration as you also figured out. You can use 
> system.dynamicAccess in order to reflectively create your factory from a 
> fully qualified class name.
>
> Regards,
>
> Roland
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Olger Warnier <ol...@spectare.nl<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi All, 
>>
>> I try to create an extension that needs a parameter in order todo it's 
>> job. 
>>
>> extensions are created like:
>>
>> override def createExtension(system: ExtendedActorSystem) = {
>>     new MyExtension(system)
>>   }
>>
>> And I'd like have something like 'new MyExtension(system, 
>> myCustomParameter: AType)'
>> The custom parameter is actually a kind of Actor Factory that will create 
>> specific handling actors for use with this specific instance of the actor 
>> system 
>> and should be passed someway into the extensions when it's created 
>>
>> Now, it's possible to have this type in the conf file, and construct from 
>> there, but I was wondering if this is possible via the code. 
>>
>> Kind regards, 
>>
>> Olger
>>
>>
>>
>>
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