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Asked: 2026-06-04T12:36:03+00:00

I am trying to create an actor that can be accessed remotely and locally.

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I am trying to create an actor that can be accessed remotely and locally.
The actor created below throws an exception. Any idea?


val myLocalActor2 = system.actorOf(Props[ActorNodes], name =
"akka://JtsSystem@127.0.0.1:2552/MyOwnRef")

Is this the best and only way to programmatically create and actor that is both local and remote?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The “name” in actorOf is just a path segment. that will identify the newly created actor. See here for more information on that: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.1/general/addressing.html

    Also, having something which is both local and remote doesn’t make sense, but I assume you mean that it should be local and be accessible from some remote node? If so, just create it with actorOf, and other nodes may look it up using “actorFor”: 

    val remoteActor = system.actorFor("akka://CalculatorApplication@127.0.0.1:2552/user/simpleCalculator")

    Read more about it here: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.1/scala/remoting.html

    In general, please read the documentation, we’ve poured so many hours into it and it feels wasteful when people don’t read it.

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