Getting started with the Actor Framework can seem like a daunting task. Understanding the basics is the first step in getting going in the world of actors.

In Part 1 we discussed the Queued Message Handler (QMH) and the Object Oriented (OO) QMH. The OO QMH seemed pretty sweet, but it was a lot of code just to get going. Now we’ll see how the Actor Framework can help us.

Now that we understand the concepts and building blocks of the Actor Framework, lets learn how to actually run some code.

So we now know that Actors are really just object oriented Queued Message Handlers, and we know how to start the message handling loop of the actor and how to message that loop. Now we need to know how to actually get cool stuff done using actors.

A simple example that shows you how to build a basic Actor Framework based file logger.