Hi Rob, I don't think the Akka remoting protocol is suitable for implementations over HTTP. There are heartbeats and other periodic messages sent, plus there are certain ordering guarantees that must be kept.
You don't need to use akka-remoting though to communicate with other Akka nodes though. You won't get location transparency, but that is not always needed or desirable anyway. You can talk between your actor systems using HTTP or any other protocol. -Endre On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Rob Crawford <rob5...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking at Akka as a possible framework for an application that's > distributed, stateful, and message-oriented, but have an odd roadblock -- I > can't use a straight TCP connection to communicate with the remote nodes. I > have to use a hybrid approach, where messages to and from the central > systems come through HTTP POSTs, and the remote systems use an mqtt broker. > Eventually I believe I could replace the HTTP end with a message broker and > queues. > > How difficult would it be to replace the TCP protocol? How "chatty" is the > protocol -- I don't want the messaging team hunting me down for flooding > their system with messages, after all? > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> 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. > -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
