Actor Model in-depth
In this section, we will discuss the Actor Model conceptually, and how the Akka Toolkit implements this programming model to support concurrency programming. We will also discuss another popular concurrency programming model—the Shared-State Concurrency model issues and how the Actor Model solves them.
What is the Actor Model?
The Actor Model is one of the most popular concurrency programming models. Like the OOP Model, it has everything as an object, and it has everything as an Actor.
It defines Actor properties, Actor axioms, and how Actors communicate with each other by sending messages asynchronously and in a non-blocking way.
As we know, writing concurrent applications using the Shared-State Concurrency model is very difficult. It is very tough to debug or maintain these kind of applications. As a Java developer, I know you guys have already written many concurrent applications and faced many issues.
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To solve all these model problems, Carl Hewitt has introduced another...