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akka module for The Play! Framework

All,

I'm pleased to announce the initial release of the akka module for The Play! Framework! To install it, download and install play 1.1r842 (that's a nightly build, as the Scala support is in the works: http://download.playframework.org/1.1-nightly/play-1.1-unstable-r842.zip), then it's a simple matter of:

play install scala-head
play install akka-head
play new myNewApp --with scala-head,akka-head
cd myNewApp
play akka:run

And you're off! There are more detailed instructions here: http://github.com/dwhitney/akka/blob/master/README.textile and there are three screencasts

Screencast One for the akka module for The Play! framework:

Screencast Two for the akka Play! Module. Rudimentary Actors:

**watch the third one if nothing else!**
Screencast Three for the akka Play! module. Remote Actors:

I'd like to thank Peter Hausel for his advice in getting this started, and we're both going to work on improving this with future releases!