transparent remoting -> location transparency

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
While the logical actor path describes the functional location within one actor
system, configuration-based transparent remoting means that an actor may be
system, configuration-based remote deployment means that an actor may be
created on a different network host as its parent, i.e. within a different
actor system. In this case, following the actor path from the root guardian up
entails traversing the network, which is a costly operation. Therefore, each

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.. _remoting:
Transparent Remoting
====================
Location Transparency
=====================
The previous section describes how actor paths are used to make possible
transparent remoting. This special feature deserves some extra explanation,
because it is a term which was used quite differently in the context of
programming languages, platforms and technologies.
The previous section describes how actor paths are used to enable location
transparency. This special feature deserves some extra explanation, because the
related term “transparent remoting” was used quite differently in the context
of programming languages, platforms and technologies.
Distributed by Default
----------------------
@ -60,5 +60,5 @@ to achieve this is that the developer needs to declare a certain actor as
up a configurable number of children of the desired type and route to them in
the configured fashion. Once such a router has been declared, its configuration
can be freely overridden from the configuration file, including mixing it with
the transparent remote deployment of (some of) the children. Read more about
this in :ref:`routing`.
the remote deployment of (some of) the children. Read more about
this in :ref:`routing-scala` and :ref:`routing-java`.

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.. _routing-java:
Routing (Java)
==============

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.. _support:
`Commercial Support <http://typesafe.com>`__
=========================================
============================================
Commercial support is provided by `Typesafe <http://typesafe.com>`_.
Akka is now part of the `Typesafe Stack <http://typesafe.com/stack>`_.

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.. _routing-scala:
Routing (Scala)
===============