add more information about supervisor strategies

akka-docs/java/fault-tolerance.rst

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ does not apply, leaving the possibility to specify an absolute upper limit on th
 restarts or to make the restarts work infinitely.
 
 Default Supervisor Strategy
----------------------------
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 ``Escalate`` is used if the defined strategy doesn't cover the exception that was thrown.
 
@@ -64,6 +64,24 @@ exceptions are handled by default:
 If the exception escalate all the way up to the root guardian it will handle it
 in the same way as the default strategy defined above.
 
+Stopping Supervisor Strategy
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Closer to the Erlang way is the strategy to just stop children when they fail
+and then take corrective action in the supervisor when DeathWatch signals the
+loss of the child. This strategy is also provided pre-packaged as
+:obj:`SupervisorStrategy.stoppingStrategy` with an accompanying
+:class:`StoppingSupervisorStrategy` configurator to be used when you want the
+``"/user"`` guardian to apply it.
+
+Supervision of Top-Level Actors
+-------------------------------
+
+Toplevel actors means those which are created using ``system.actorOf()``, and
+they are children of the :ref:`User Guardian <user-guardian>`. There are no
+special rules applied in this case, the guardian simply applies the configured
+strategy.
+
 Test Application
 ----------------
 

akka-docs/java/remoting.rst

@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ As you can see from the example above the following pattern is used to find an `
 
     akka://<actorsystemname>@<hostname>:<port>/<actor path>
 
+Once you obtained a reference to the actor you can interact with it they same way you would with a local actor, e.g.::
+
+  actor.tell("Pretty awesome feature", getSelf());
+
 .. note::
 
   For more details on how actor addresses and paths are formed and used, please refer to :ref:`addressing`.