The Actor Foundry (http://yangtze.cs.uiuc.edu/foundry/) is a JavaLanguage implementation of the ActorsModel. Here is a simple example of Actor Foundry code, that creates an actor and sends it two messages: package osl.examples.xampi; import osl.manager.*; import osl.util.*; public class Xampi extends Actor { public void boot() throws RemoteCodeE''''''xception { Actor''''''Name a2 = create("osl.examples.xampi.Xampi"); send(a2, "relayPrint", "Hi there"); send(a2, "relayPrint", "Lo there"); } public void relayPrint(String item) { send(stdout, "println", "Xampi relays "+item); Debug.out.println("Xampi prints "+item); } } ------ Also see ActorsModel, ActorLanguages.