How to properly use akka actors in scala

Question

I\'m relatively new to the idea of actors, and was wondering if I could get some critique on what I am doing. For part of a project, I need to have an actor that tells a col

Answer 1

You can't remove state since TimeManager should contain list of actors.

You could hide it:

class TimeManager extends Actor {
  def receive = getBehavior(Nil)
  def getBehavior(actors: List[ActorRef]): Receive = {
    case AdvanceTime() => actors foreach (_ ! DateTime.now)
    case AddListener(x) => context become getBehavior(x :: actors)
  }
}

Answer 2

The strength of Scala is its hybrid of OO and Functional programming, scala developer don't need hate var, if you do, you may need choose Haskell.

In your case, I think the only thing you need to change is to make actors as private