What are some common use cases for using the Akka Microkernel?

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Based on the docs on akki.io I'm not seeing what common use cases the MicroKernel solves? Does anyone have some simple real world use cases?

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4493001/good-use-case-for-akka — Ken White, May 19 '12 at 04:05
@KenWhite: The question is not about Akka, but about Akka Microkernel... — paradigmatic, May 19 '12 at 12:18

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '12 at 11:22

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The Akka Microkernel module gives you a very light-weight and free "application server" bundle so it's easy to distribute and run your Akka application.

Read more about it here: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.1/modules/microkernel.html

answered May 19 '12 at 11:22

Viktor Klang

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Is the microkernel something you would distribute with your application? Or would you distribute your application and expect someone to download the microkernel separately and use it to load/execute the application? I assume it is the latter since Akka does the former without the microkernel. Can it execute multiple applications at once? – cessationoftime May 20 '12 at 20:01
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Either you distribute your app inside a microkernel, or you expect others to already have a microkernel set up. – Viktor Klang May 20 '12 at 21:58
that answers it perfectly, so instead of running my app as a tomcat webapp, I could just deploy it without tomcat using the microkernel to load it up(no longer as a webapp obviously) – James May 21 '12 at 23:25

What are some common use cases for using the Akka Microkernel?

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