This is something i've been wondering myself too. In particular, I think there would be a LOT of potential awesome/benefit in being able to integrate Rails with Akka; be it JVM akka using ruby/rails as actors (since there tend to be a LOT more gem's published for random API's, etc), or a Rails based application farming work off to a more powerful JVM based backend for the heavy lifting.
I know I did stumble across an Akka/JRuby sort of hybrid, but as far as I could tell (with about 2min of looking) it wasn't really a generic solution to the problem. Does anyone have a rough idea of what the complexity of looking into this might be? It would be really useful to know (even at a high/rough level) what the minimum requirements would be to implement a basic Actor that can talk to an established system, and whereabouts in code/doco we'd need to start looking to dig out the protocols/etc needing implementation. My other thought in this regard (with absolutely no thought put into practicality/whether it would actually work) is that there could be some potential in cross compiling with something like LLVM. - Glenn / devalias On Monday, 4 August 2014 06:11:21 UTC+10, Josh Powers wrote: > > I am fairly new to the akka world, but I have erlang experience so the > concept isnt super foreign to me. However I was curious if there was any > documentation lying around that would help me implement actors on a > separate platorm, specifically I was considering implementing an actor > framework for arduino, with the intention of individual arduinos being a > single actor, not for the purpose of parallelization because they are waaay > to slow to be useful but with the intention of using akka to manage a > network of arduinos from a computer each with its own specific task. > > At any rate, I would need to understand a few things, first off, what does > the akka network stack look like, what is the protocol/api. > Can an actor who was created by itself register with a central actor or > router etc? > > I am hoping to tie a couple of new mediums of communication in so that the > individual arduinos would be able to communicate amongst themselves as well > as to a scala/akka based central control. > > Also, I am definately willing to hear reasons this is a terrible idea so > dont hessitate to let me know if I am missing something really imortant. > > Thanks! > -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
