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h1. Akka Project h1. Akka
h3. "http://akkasource.org":http://akkasource.org We believe that writing correct concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable applications is too hard. Most of the time it's because we are using the wrong tools and the wrong level of abstraction.
Akka implements a unique hybrid of: Akka is here to change that.
* The Actor model (Actors and Active Objects), which gives you:
** Concurrency (high-level and simple)
** Asynchronous, non-blocking and highly performant components.
** Supervision with "let-it-crash" semantics. Components are loosely coupled and restarted upon failure.
* Software Transactional Memory (STM).
* BASE and ACID persistence - Pluggable Eventually Consistent or ACID distributed scalable persistent storage.
* Remoting - Distributed services with supervision and error management
* REST (JAX-RS) and Comet bindings.
* Monitoring and Management
h1. Documentation Using the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory we raise the abstraction level and provides a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications.
Akka has pretty thorough "reference documentation":http://doc.akkasource.org. Covering examples, APIs and configuration. For fault-tolerance we adopt the "Let it crash" / "Embrace failure" model which have been used with great success in the telecom industry to build applications that self-heals, systems that never stop.
h1. Distribution Actors also provides the abstraction for transparent distribution and the basis for truly scalable and fault-tolerant applications.
The latest distribution can be found in the "downloads section":https://github.com/jboner/akka/downloads Akka is Open Source and available under the Apache 2 License.
h1. Mailing List Learn more at "http://akkasource.org":http://akkasource.org
If you have questions and/or feedback: please sign up to the Akka User mailing list:
"http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user":http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user
h1. Professional Support
Scalable Solutions AB is providing a variety of professional support packages for Akka, please visit their website for details:
"http://scalablesolutions.se":http://scalablesolutions.se
h1. License
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This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.
Copyright 2009 Scalable Solutions AB <http://scalablesolutions.se>
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
the License.
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