Link to the Show / Show NotesToday's podcast features Jonas BonÃr, the creator of the Akka framework. If you've been listening to the podcast, especially to Episode #37 with Alex Miller on Java Concurrency, here is an alternative approach to providing scalability on the Java VM.Akka features an implementation of Actors, Software Transactional Memory, and Transactors, a hybrid approach to working with STM inside of Actors themselves. Jonas also provides a mechanism for writing these components inside of the Java language as well.Actors are not a direct part of the Scala language. Rather, they are implemented as a library. There are, in fact, at least three implementations. Jonas BonÃr's Akka framework includes actors as well as access to Software Transactional Memory. In this episode, my colleague Jamie Allen and I interview Jonas to try to pull apart what Actors and Software Transactional Memory are, and how they can help developers write highly scalable, concurrent applications.Links:The Akka Mountain in Sweden (Akka is named after the mountain)The Akka framework homepage is www.akkasource.org (or www.akkasource.com or even www.letitcrash.com)A good blog entry about Akka The high level overview of Akka from the akkasource siteJonas' home page and the Akka twitter handle
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