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Orbit Framework

Orbit is a modern framework for JVM languages that makes it easier to build and maintain distributed and scalable online services. It was developed by BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts. For the latest news, follow us on Twitter.

Orbit is primarily made up of the following components:

Orbit Actors, a framework to write distributed systems using virtual actors.
Orbit Async, async-await methods for the JVM.
Orbit Container, a minimal inversion of control container for building online services.
Orbit Utils, a set of utils to help simplify various tasks on the JVM.
Orbit Web, a lightweight HTTP and Websockets container for Orbit, powered by Jetty.
Orbit Commons, various common utilities used by Orbit.

Documentation

Documentation is located here.
See the Hello World sample.

License

Orbit is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.

Simple Examples

Actors - Java

public interface IHello extends IActor
{
    Task<String> sayHello(String greeting);
}
 
public class HelloActor extends OrbitActor implements IHello
{
    public Task<String> sayHello(String greeting)
    {
        getLogger().info("Here: " + greeting);
        return Task.fromValue("Hello There");
    }
}
 
IActor.getReference(IHello.class, "0").sayHello("Meep Meep");

Actors - Scala

trait IHello extends IActor {
  def sayHello(greeting: String): Task[String]
}

class HelloActor extends OrbitActor[AnyRef] with IHello {
  def sayHello(greeting: String): Task[String] = {
    getLogger.info("Here: " + greeting)
    Task.fromValue("Hello There")
  }
}

IActor.getReference(classOf[IHello], "0").sayHello("Meep Meep")

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