akka actors framework - context.actorOf vs system.actorOf

Question

Could you please explain me what is the difference between

context.actorOf

and

system.actorOf

?

Answer 1

Answer to this can be easily found in the Akka documentation:

An actor system is typically started by creating actors beneath the guardian actor using the ActorSystem.actorOf method and then using ActorContext.actorOf from within the created actors to spawn the actor tree.

• Actors spawned with System.actorOf will be children of the guardian actor.
• Actors spawned with context.actorOf will be children of the context itself - ie the actor which invokes the method.

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