Sleeping actors?

Question

What\'s the best way to have an actor sleep? I have actors set up as agents which want to maintain different parts of a database (including getting data from external sources).

Answer 1

ActorPing (Apache License) from lift-util has schedule and scheduleAtFixedRate Source: ActorPing.scala

From scaladoc:

The ActorPing object schedules an actor to be ping-ed with a given message at specific intervals. The schedule methods return a ScheduledFuture object which can be cancelled if necessary