ClusterMessageSerializer ClassNotFoundException in Akka 2.2.x remote in OSGI

Question

I developed my application using a remote actor. Now I'm trying to install the bundle into Felix but the problem is that it's requiring me a ClusterMessageSerializer class. I'm not using a cluster and my configuration is a simple remote actor. Do you know why this issue and how can I solve it?

I've tried to import akka.cluster but then felix requires scalabuff, version between 1.2.0 and 1.3.0 which are not bundle.

This is my application.conf:

akka {
  actor {
    provider = "akka.remote.RemoteActorRefProvider"
  }
  remote {
    enabled-transports = ["akka.remote.netty.tcp"]
    netty.tcp {
      hostname = "127.0.0.1"
      port = 2552
    }
 }
}

and this is the exception:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: akka.cluster.protobuf.ClusterMessageSerializer not found by com.typesafe.akka.osgi

Answer 1

I added akka-cluster and it seemed to work. Not totally sure why tho- my service is talking over akka remoting to a cluster, so it may just be the form of serialization it uses....