Do we have Akka/Scala equivalents for the OTP behaviors?

Question

I'm currently estimating a new project which is related to message routing and logging. I found OTP's abstractions like event and server pretty useful for it. But due to non-technical reasons this project probably will be implemented on JVM, so I've looked at Akka. And haven't found anything similar.

There is 2 reasons why I want to find something similar to generic behaviors in Akka:

1. I'm not an expert in building distributed systems and like to have kind of best practices embedded into my tools.
2. All Akka's stuff like remote references and registries seems a bit complicated for a simple "pass from one point to another" app. It would be great if I will be able to address components of my system by simple name right "out of the box".

Am I missing something or in Akka it is a common practice to implement this kind of functionality by yourself?

Answer 1

I think you're looking for this: http://akka.io/docs/akka-modules/1.3-RC2/modules/camel.html