Does Akka support embedded messaging without serializing objects?

Question

Looking to use Akka Actors to pass events between Java threads in one JVM. Some of these events contain large objects (10-100 MB). I want to avoid serializing these objects while preserving memory space by passing only a reference to the object; Does Akka support this? I understand that implementing a custom Akka serializer, and this may be a solution, but apart from that, I don't know anything else about the structure.

Answer 1

Akka considers the local message passing as optimization, bypassing the remote device, which includes a message serializer. See location transparency .