Akka players framework - context.actorOf vs system.actorOf

Question

Could you explain to me what is the difference between

context.actorOf

and

system.actorOf

?

Answer 1

The answer to this can be easily found in the Akka documentation:

The actor system is usually started by creating actors under the guardian, using the ActorSystem.actorOf method, and then using the ActorContext.actorOf from the created participants to create a player tree.

• Actors created using System.actorOf will be the children of the guardian actor.
• Actors created using context.actorOf will be children of the context itself, i.e. the actor calling the method.

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