futures

What's new in Scala 2.10

Just a quick note that Scala 2.10.0 was released recently, and the following page, Scala 2.10.0 now available, contains a nice summary of what's new in the official Scala 2.10 release. The short list of new features includes:

By Alvin Alexander on January 14, 2013

Making Twitter web service calls concurrently with Akka Futures

While I was working on improving how Sarah gets information from Twitter and other sources, I decided to take some of that code and hack together this example. It shows how to make three Twitter web service requests concurrently -- and then wait for ther results before moving on -- with Akka Futures.

Before sharing the entire class, the cool Akka Futures stuff is in these lines of code:

By Alvin Alexander on February 26, 2013

Scala - A simple working Akka Futures example

Akka Futures FAQ: Can you share a simple example that shows how to use an Akka Future?

Sure. To fix a problem in my Sarah application I needed to be able to run some operations concurrently. After digging through the Akka Actors documentation I found that you can run simple operations as a Future, almost as easily as this:

By Alvin Alexander on February 26, 2013
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