13. Distributed messaging and Java enterprise integration

This chapter covers Using Lift’s AMQP support Building distributed systems using Akka Using Lift’s integration with the Java Persistence API

The first part of this chapter is all about distributed and concurrent programming. You’ll see how you can utilize Lift’s baked-in AMQP module to build reliable message-based workflows atop a friendly actor-based abstraction. In addition, we’ll look at Akka, the concurrency toolkit and scalability runtime.