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copied!<p>I'm trying to find the 'right' actor implementation. I realized there is a bunch of them and it's a bit confusing to pick one. Personally I'm especially interested in remote actors, but I guess a complete overview would be helpful to many others. This is a pretty general question, so feel free to answer just for the implementation you know about.</p> <p>I know about the following Scala Actor implementations (SAI). Please add the missing ones.</p> <ul> <li>Scala 2.7 (difference to)</li> <li>Scala 2.8</li> <li>Akka (<a href="http://www.akkasource.org/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.akkasource.org/</a>)</li> <li>Lift (<a href="http://liftweb.net/" rel="noreferrer">http://liftweb.net/</a>)</li> <li><p>Scalaz (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/scalaz/" rel="noreferrer">http://code.google.com/p/scalaz/</a>)</p> <hr></li> <li><p>What are the target use-cases for these SAIs (lightweight vs. "heavy" enterprise framework)?</p></li> <li>do they support remote actors? What shortcomings do remote actors have in the SAIs?</li> <li>How is their performace?</li> <li>How active is there community?</li> <li>How easy are they to get started? How good is the documentation?</li> <li>How easy are they to extend? </li> <li>How stable are they? Which projects are using them?</li> <li>What are their shortcomings?</li> <li>What are their design principles? <ul> <li>Are they thread based or event based (receive/ react) or both?</li> <li>Nested receiveS</li> <li>hotswapping the Actor’s message loop</li> </ul></li> </ul>

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