Scheduling an operation at a specified interval

There are some situations where we want an operation to occur at a specified time or occur repeatedly after an interval. This is like a cron job. Let's go through the recipe.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, we need to import our Hello-Akka project into the IDE and create a com.packt.chapter5 package in which we will put all the code.

How to do it...

1. Let's create a file, say, ScheduleOperation.scala in the com.packt.chapter5 package.
2. Add the following imports to the top of the file:

        import akka.actor.ActorSystem
        import...