If the behavior has to avoid deadletter when there are no subscribers, we are mainly talking about 'store and forward' behavior. Now, that paradigm brings additional requirements like persistence of messages, managing topic wise messages in distributed manner, resultant consistency needs etc.
I could think those are few reasons for which a simple approach on lines of 'udp broadcast' style design was adopted by distributed pubsub. Muthu -- >>>>>>>>>> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
