On this page you find information about the Actors library of the Scala programming language.
Scala Actors -- A Short Tutorial
This tutorial is mainly designed as a walk-through of several
complete example programs that can be readily compiled and run
using Scala 2.4 or newer.
Thanks to Juanjo Bazan there is also a Spanish translation of the tutorial.
The Scala 2.8/2.9 Actors API
This guide provides a fairly complete walk through of the most important
types and methods in the API, including examples.
Actors in Scala by Philipp Haller and Frank Sommers (Artima Inc, 2011)
This book is the definitive guide to programming with the actors framework of
Scala's standard library. It provides a comprehensive introduction to
the actor model of concurrency and shows how Scala's actors enable you to
build efficient, scalable, and robust concurrent software for the JVM.