GPars Actors

import static groovyx.gpars.actor.Actors.actor

/**
 * A demo showing two cooperating actors. The decryptor decrypts received messages and replies them back.
 * The console actor sends a message to decrypt, prints out the reply and terminates both actors.
 * The main thread waits on both actors to finish using the join() method to prevent premature exit,
 * since both actors use the default actor group, which uses a daemon thread pool.
 * 
 * code derrived from: http://gpars.codehaus.org/Actor
 */

def decryptor = actor {
    loop {
        react {message ->
            Thread.sleep(1000);
            
            if (!(message instanceof String)) {
                stop()
                return
            }
            
            reply message.reverse()
        }
    }
}

def console = actor {
    List strs = ['abc','zyx','Vvv',false];
    int i = -1
    
    loop {
        if (!strs[++i]) stop()
        
        decryptor << strs[i]
        
        println "Sent: ${strs[i]}"
        
        react {msg ->
           println "Decrypted msg: $msg"
        }
    }
}

[decryptor, console]*.join()