Actors question

CamelJockey.start

And is this the same Craig from LeapFrog; involved in that awesome Gosling interview @ JavaOne [1]?

Brian Maso

[1] http://basementcoders.com/?p=721

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On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Craig Tataryn wrote:

> Hi, I have the following setup:
>
> object CamelJockey extends Actor {
> var camelCtx: CamelContext = null
>
> def act() = {
> loop {
> react {
> case "start" => {
> val springCtx: ApplicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("spring/scribeBeans.xml")
>
> camelCtx = springCtx.getBean("camelCtx").asInstanceOf[CamelContext]
> camelCtx.start
> }
> case "stop" => camelCtx.stop; exit
> case x: Any => println("Error: Unknown message! " + x)
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> /**
> * Load up Camel
> *
> */
> object ScribeApp {
> def main(args: Array[String]) {
>
> CamelJockey ! "start"
> Thread.sleep(10000);
> println("Exiting...")
>
> }
> }
>
>
> Essentially, ScribeApp is a bootstrapper for starting an Apache Camel context. The problem I'm facing is, it seems as though my case statement in the react block is never receiving the message "start". What happens instead is the app sleeps for 10secs, then prints out "Exiting...". Am I missing something (either code-wise, or understanding-wise)? I expected the "start" block to be executed and the app be kept alive by the loop in my actor.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig.
>
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