Re: Akka transparency and serialisation

2015-04-21 Thread Stephan Ewen
Good point to raise Paris. Here are the practices I (and others) have been using, they work well 1) Do not assume serialization, that is true. If you need to make sure that the instance of the data is not shared after the message, send a manually serialized version. The "InstantiationUtil" has me

Akka transparency and serialisation

2015-04-21 Thread Paris Carbone
Hello everyone, Many of you are already aware of this but it is good to make it clear in the mailist. We bumped into this "special" case with Akka several times already and it is important to know where transparency actually breaks. In short, Akka serialises only messages that get transferred