how to integrate akka, camel and servicemix with jetty

Question

I have some actors written in akka, and I would like to make them interact through ServiceMix. Tough, I am a bit confused about how these technologies interact. This is what I have understood so far:

• akka let me write some actors:
  • producer sends messages
  • consumer receives messages
  • untypedActor both send and receive
• akka microkernel bundles up all the actors in just one jar file
• camel is the bridge between akka and ServiceMix, since it exposes actors over http (with jetty for example)
• ServiceMix let actors communicate

Each actor will be available on a fixed endpoint, defined as route in ServiceMix

from("jetty:http://localhost:{{port}}/myapp/myactor").process(new MyActor());

Now my questions are:

1. who automatically deploys my actors in jetty?
2. how can I define the endpoints of the actors?

Answer 1

Regarding your questions:

1) no one, you deploy your bundle in service mix and camel opens a jetty endpoint for you to listen on that port for http requests.
2) According to the akka documentation there is a akka endpoint already available. You need to install some sort of "camel-akka" bundle to use it. There seems to be some documentation for this available from the akka page