jboner/akka — pull request #144 by rkuhn (2011-12-09 20:15:55+00:00)
Title: remote supervision aka client-managed remote actors

This is the last big thing, bringing together all the ends we worked so hard on during the last months: starting from making everything asynchronous and message-based, factoring out ActorRefProvider and ActorCell with corresponding simplifications of the structure, then mandatory parental supervision, removal of global state and encapsulation within ActorSystem and finally the introduction of ActorPath. Now all these pieces click together to form truly transparent remote deployment. (Fanfare here)

Please excuse the pathetic introduction, now down to business ;-)

This pull request is meant for review, but the branch cannot be merged into master just yet: I’d like to incorporate Henrik’s work on RoutedActorRef so that all tests pass again (DeployerSpec & ConfiguredLocalRoutingSpec are currently failing).